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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.