For A Woman To Say She Has

Once You Get Into Your Stride, The Camera Becomes Like Another Person In The Room. It's Like Being In A Very Small Theatre Where There Is No Getting Away With Anything Because The Audience Is Centimetres Away From You.

I Play The Guitar. This Year At The Sundance Film Festival, I Joined The Band From 'the Guitar' On Stage. We Warmed Up For Patti Smith, And Then The Director Michel Gondry Got On The Drums To Play Some Songs From The Soundtrack To His Film Be Kind Rewind With Mos Def. It Was Pretty Mad.

I Like Working On Stage Because There's Something Very Immediate About It, That Interaction With An Audience Where You Immediately Hear Their Reaction, Or Feel Them, Whether They're With You.

In Orthodox Film-making, You Never Shoot Sequentially - But With Improv, Obviously Every Move You Make Has A Knock-on Effect; It Is A Cumulative Process. I Have Improvised, On The Non-scripted 'timecode.' It Can Become Entirely Indulgent: Actors Smashing Crockery And Competing Verbally.

I Grew Up In A Strongly Socialist Family. While I Was At School, I Worked In Party Politics And With Organizations Like The Anti-nazi League. Everywhere I Saw It, I Fought Prejudice.