Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

It seems like people increasingly just can't be by themselves because they're so used to having an epicenter on the Internet that actually exists for other people. Until someone clicks onto your Facebook page, it doesn't mean anything.

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

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