I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.

In life we want to challenge ourselves...

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.