I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.