Quotes

People ask me if I felt that Michael Winterbottom took advantage of me because I hadn't acted before, but they forget that I developed the character. I am not at all like Lisa, and I was genuinely shocked by the reaction to the film and, particularly, to my role in it.

People were really angry with me. When I did press conferences people would shout abuse at me. You'd think I invented sex! I got told I was a whore and a slut and how could I do it. And what kind of role model did I think I was giving young women?

When you have been brought up as a religious person, when it has been part of your everyday life, you feel lost without it. It's as though I couldn't continue without religion in my life.

[on fox hunting] Hunting with guns back home seemed wrong to me, but seeing a pack of hounds follow their natural urge is so majestic. Why would anyone ban such a thing? It's ridiculous.

The film shows sex in a good light. It is a monogamous relationship between two people who are in love. Michael was a perfect candidate for making this film - he makes it beautiful, lovely, sweet, kind, sensitive. I think he's done a very good job of it.