Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be he… - Meryl Streep

No! But they were here [in Los Angeles]. Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'

Half of me is Streep and the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire so I come by it honestly, this part.

[On the situation for women in Afghanistan] Today in Kabul a female cat has more freedom than a woman. A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face, she may chase a squirrel in the park. [...] A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan today because the public parks have been closed to women and girls by the Taliban.
A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not in public. This is extraordinary. This is a suppression of the natural law.
The way that this culture, this society has been upended, is a cautionary tale for the rest of the world.