I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.