There's nothing very interesting about my life.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.

I don’t really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

I think it’s very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

I get quite disappointed that we’re still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they’re saying about women.

I realise there’s an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be famous,’ on the other.

As a kid, I really loved ‘Jane Eyre,’ I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I’m not that keen on doing things that don’t represent a truth about women.

I don’t really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don’t really want to sign up for.

I can’t spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.