When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.