I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.