Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, "Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done".

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.