Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film [War of the Worlds]. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.