I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

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

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.