I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

I lead a very boring life.