Working Away From My Husband

My Parents Believed In Education And Economic Security, And I Thank Them For It. Because I Think That's Part Of What's Made My Life Stable. It Was Instilled In Me. You Have To Be Able To Pay Your Bills. You Do Not Get Into Debt. And I Never Have Been.

Wherever I Am In The World, If I Get Free Time When I'm Filming I Always Hire A Car, Take To The Road, Drive For Miles And Explore.

I'm Not A Communist, Of Course. But I Do Think That Everything Is Down To Economics. Capitalism Doesn't Change.

A War Film Can Be Propaganda And They're Very Valuable As Propaganda, As We Realized In Britain In The Second World War. Film As Propaganda Is A Very Valuable Tool. It Can Also Demonize, Which Is The Dangerous Side Of A War Film As Propaganda. But There Are War Films That Are Not Propaganda. It's Just Saying 'this Is What It's Like.' For 99 Percent Of Us We Don't Know What It's Like. We Have No Idea. So To Reveal That To The Audience Is Powerful.

When I Was Making Films [early In My Career] There Were Very, Very Few Female Directors, And There Were Certainly No Women On Set, Which Made Taking One's Clothes Off All The More Difficult.