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

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.

We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.

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

It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.