You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine,

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned (and) we should not turn a blind eye to them.

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.