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.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

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

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.

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've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.