If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.

I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it's not always that way.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.