People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

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

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

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

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.