I think it’s always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
We’re all idiots when we’re young. We don’t think we are, but we are. So we should be.
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn’t have much money. Then that generation went, ‘OK, great’, and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn’t caught up.
I don’t share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don’t mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are ‘strong’ and ‘feisty.’ They really annoy me. It’s the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.
When you do a voice in an animated film, you don’t see the finished product at all. You’re not animating. You’re not doing the voice on the finished product. You’re doing the voice long before.
The poor Oscars – they always get slammed in the press.
I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say ‘London.’
I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.
Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.
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