Madonna has claimed that she is going to give her music career a little break so that she can concentrate on film directing.

She told Interview Magazine: "I've been writing it (the forthcoming movie W.E.) for the last two and a half years, to tell you the truth. It's been kind of an obsession of mine. I started writing it when I finished filming [directorial debut] Filth and Wisdom. It was actually an idea I had before that, but I made Filth and Wisdom because I realised that I didn't really have a right to make a bigger film until I made a smaller film - and learned how to make a film."

Madonna then went on to explain that she isn’t currently signed to any label and that it might be difficult to get her music out in the future without one:

"I don't have a record deal right now with anybody. I don't know how I'm going to get my music out the next time I make a record. I'm going to have to reinvent the wheel. I haven't really been focused as much as I should be on the music part of my career, because this movie has just consumed every inch of me. Between that and my four children, I don't have the time or the energy for anything else."