I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

People are going so far as to kill themselves over the things that happen online.

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.