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

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

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.

I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.