You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.

I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.