I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so.

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.

I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.