I Know There Is Something

There Is A Kind Of Invisible Thread Between The Actor And The Audience, And When It's There It's Stunning, And There Is Nothing To Match That.

I Don't Think Films About Elderly People Have Been Made Very Much. I Think Of Cocoon And Driving Miss Daisy. But They Always Seem To Be Fairly Successful, So It's A Bit Baffling As To Why Everybody Has To Be Treated As If They Were Five-years-old.

A Lot Of Writing About Being A Mother Is Not So Much Writing About The Kids Themselves. They Become Placeholders For The Shift That Happens When You're Suddenly In Charge Of Other People.

Sort Of What You Do In Drama School When Asked To Play Something Way Out Of Your Reach. Anyway, We Used To Laugh A Lot About That. I Used To Say I'm Not Going To Act Old, Penelope. I'll Just Be Myself.

It's Funny To Be Pigeonholed So Late In Life But There We Are.