I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would be ostracized. The rigid societal conventions meant that it was difficult to live outside of them.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.