Because I sleep with him he asked me to audition, you know?

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.