Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.