Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

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

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

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 guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

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. 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."