Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.

Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.