I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

I think Nelly [Ternan] actually has something very conservative about her, and she's very judgmental of (this other character's) situation, and can see that's about to happen to herself. So she judges it even more harshly [because] it's what she fears becoming.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.