I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.