So Many Actors Are Not Open In

This Is The First Generation To Grow Up On Thatcher - It's A Different Ethos. It's Money Minded, And It's The Cult Of Yourself. Now That's Fine, Except When It Falls Down, And You Can't Achieve Your Goals - Through High Unemployment, Through The Fact That You Probably Need Inherited Money To Get Anywhere.

Women Often Postpone Their Lives, Thinking That If They're Not With A Partner Then It Doesn't Really Count. They're Still Searching For Their Prince, In A Way. And As Much As We Don't Discuss That, Because It's Too Embarrassing And Too Sad, I Think It Really Does Exist.

It's Harder Being A Woman Director Because On The Whole Women Don't Have Husbands Or Boyfriends Who Are Willing To Be Wives

I Didn't Like England. I Couldn't Take The Look Of The Place Or The Style Of Friendship. I Need More Intimacy From People Than Is Considered Okay There, And I Felt That My Personality And My Enthusiasms Weren't Understood. I Had To Put A Big Lid On Myself.

I Think Women Don't Grow Up With The Harsh World Of Criticism That Men Grow Up With, We Are More Sensitively Treated, And When You First Experience The World Of Film-making You Have To Develop A Very Tough Skin.