Patience Can Be A Good Thing -

I Am For Peace And All Kinds Of Ways Because The Total Reality Is That You Never Quite, At Least In My Experience, You Never Quite Get To Be Peaceful In The Profession That We Have All Chosen. It's A Constant Yearning, A Constant Reaching Out For The Unreachable. And So You Never Quite Find Peace Within Yourself. You Are Always Questioning Yourself And Challenging Yourself And Feeling That You Would Fall Short.

When I Was Making Films [early In My Career] There Were Very, Very Few Female Directors, And There Were Certainly No Women On Set, Which Made Taking One's Clothes Off All The More Difficult.

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 That Way. The Term Is "long-suffering."

When You're Young, You Wonder What All These Old People Are Droning On About, Trying To Impart Their Wisdom. It's Not Relevant To You Because Being Young Is Such A Specific Thing. Thank God For That. Thank God For The Young People Who Go Out And Demonstrate Against Rampant Capitalism Or Whatever.

I've Not Won Different Awards - Many, Many Times - So Luckily I've Practiced That Whenever You Are Nominated For Anything, You Enter Into This Marvelous, Fantabulous Bubble Called The Bubble Of Nomination. The Minute The Envelope Is Opened And Your Name Isn't Called Out, The Bubble Bursts. And No One Calls You Up The Next Day To Say, 'so Sorry You Didn't Win,' Or 'you Looked Gorgeous - Nothing. If You Win, You Get About Another 24 Hours In That Lovely Bubble And Then - Pop - You Are Slightly Wet All Over From The Bubble And Realize That You Have To Get On With Real Life.