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Everybody Can Take A Good Picture. Everybody Is Interesting. Everyone Has An Interesting Face. Some People Are More Difficult Or More Nervous Or More Tired. When You Do A Movie, You Have Action, You're Talking, You're Moving. You Don't See The Camera. Taking A Picture With A Photographer, You Don't Talk, It's More Difficult Than In A Movie For Your Body To Relax, To Be Yourself.

I Don’t Know What Happened Through The ’80s, ’90s, And ’00s That Took Feminism Off The Table, That Made It Something That Women Weren’t Supposed To Identify With And Were Supposed To Be Ashamed Of. Feminism Is About The Fight For Equality Between The Sexes, With Equal Respect, Equal Pay, And Equal Opportunity. At The Moment We Are Still A Long Way Off That.

A Lot Of Times In Cinema Today The Women Are Overly Sentimental, So I Constantly Try To Do The Opposite. I Like Strident Women.

The Whole Point For Me Is To Change As Much As Possible. If I've Done One Movie, I've Done That, Move On.

I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.