There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

I never raise my voice!

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.