"The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across."

"My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't."

"There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work."

"All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job."

"Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work."

"There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles."