Ida Lupino

I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.