You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

I, personally, liked the legend.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.

He is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.