I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

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.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."