Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.