Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I live quite an unsettled life.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.