When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.

I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.

I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.