I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don't necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.

You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

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

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.

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

I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a lot more information, you're not making it up, it's there in books, it's there in research form. But really the questions you ask about the character, and why people behave, and where they come, and how they've ended up in the places they've ended up are the same.