You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good..

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand..

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs..

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents..

Films are just consumables..

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my f….

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different..

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do..

I never raise my voice!.