I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

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

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.