I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.