Every Director Works Differently.

You Don't Fully Understand The Meaning Of A Work Until The Audience Responds To It. Because The Audience Completes The Circle, And Adds A Whole Other Shade Of Meaning. Whenever You View Something, And This Is Why Great Works Of Art Survive Decades And Centuries, Is Because There's A Door Within The Work That Allows The Audience To Walk Through And Complete The Meaning Of The Work. An Audience Isn't Passive, Nor Are They Unintelligent.

I Think Often Women Can Feel Isolated And Feel Like They Get Into A Rut And Don't Quite Know How To Get Out Of It.

People Talk About The Golden Age Of Hollywood Because Of How Women Were Lit Then. You Could Be Joan Crawford And Bette Davis And Work Well Into Your 50s, Because You Were Lit And Made Into A Goddess. Now, With Everything Being Sort Of Gritty, Women Have This Sense Of Their Use-by Date.

I Think Probably Winning These Things [an Oscar] Can Be A Bit Of A Curse Depending On Who You Are And How You Think. But I Haven't Been On A Journey To Get Anywhere In Particular, So That Hasn't Changed. And My Criteria For Choosing Projects Hasn't Changed.

That's Why So Many People Want To Play Hamlet: Because It's A Completely Demarked Role, And The Actor Playing It Has To Be Prepared, Through The Language, To Allow The Audience To See Into Who He Is.