I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

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.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.