I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.