Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

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

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.