And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

Generally I'm a pretty positive but like any other working person if the jobs aren't coming in I do get depressed.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people politics falls aside pretty quickly.

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

My college Fitzwilliam was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Well the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

I was looking for something like baseball where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.