You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

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

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.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

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.