Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

I want young women to think about different possibilities for their lives.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

my mind struggled top condense all that had led to me being here. My vocal cords fought to express the memories that leaked out

.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.

Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.