I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

I come from a musical kind of family.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.