Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reac….

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful..

I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise exper….

The poor Oscars - they always get slammed in the press..

The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh, but on film, you can't just suddenly st….

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described ….

Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally….

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one..

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will dest….

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger..

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love ….

At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed ou….

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness..

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does..

The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was bett….

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually..

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I w….

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and….

Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any of the different ways movies can be. I love the….

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's….

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific..