In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

I'm open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of people in the world, and I can be that vehicle through which something can be said, I find that entirely thrilling and joyful.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.