I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.