Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.

At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.