Nice Is The Worst Word.

I Don't Want To Deny My Femininity. But Would I Want To Be A Stay-at-home Mother? No. On The Other Hand, You Should Be Allowed To Do That, As Should Men, Without Being Sneered At.

If I Don't Do This Film. I'll Be Acting In Corsets For The Next 20 Years.

Humans Who See Something Different Than Them Want To Hate It And Tear It Down. Britain Had A Government Policy That Allowed Prejudice To Destroy Someone's Life, And Today There Is Still Homophobia At Home And Elsewhere, Like Russia Or Greece. It's Still A Relevant Discussion. While Women Have It Better Than The 1940s Or '50s, Sexism Is Still Prevalent.

I’ve Noticed That The People Who Started On Film Still Have The Ability To See The Person In Front Of Them. Whereas For A Lot Of Photographers Who Have Only Ever Worked In Digital, The Relationship Between The Photographer And The Person Who They’re Taking A Picture Of Sort Of Doesn’t Exist Anymore. They’re Looking At A Computer Screen As Opposed To The Person.

I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.