I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's the heroine or the antiheroine.

I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.

In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

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