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

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.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

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'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

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.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.