I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.