What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

I am a hopeless romantic.

When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.