I like to put perfume on my pulse points, but I also love the way you can sense it - there is an atmosphere that comes from releasing a scent in to the world - it's a primal thing. I spray around me, not just on me, and it lingers in the room after I leave.

I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.