Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.