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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.