I remember when I first came to America and I saw posters for TV shows and I was like, "What?! Why does a television show deserve space on a billboard?"

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.