As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.