I Always Feel Like I'm The One

I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.

When I Was About 5 I Think, I Desperately Wanted To Be A Pirate And Have The Hat And Everything.

I Went From Everyone Saying, "she-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," To An Oscar Nomination. So There Was Something Quite Sublime About That!

I Don’t Know What Happened Through The ’80s, ’90s, And ’00s That Took Feminism Off The Table, That Made It Something That Women Weren’t Supposed To Identify With And Were Supposed To Be Ashamed Of. Feminism Is About The Fight For Equality Between The Sexes, With Equal Respect, Equal Pay, And Equal Opportunity. At The Moment We Are Still A Long Way Off That.

It's Very Rare To Get A Film Script That Has Good Dialogue. A Lot Of The Time, You Spend On Film Sets Really Fighting To Find Out How To Say The Words.