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."

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.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.