If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

The writing is the springboard for your intuitive stuff and then you see, maybe a colour of what you want to achieve. Then you bring in the technique you've learnt. But when you're on film, you're not always in control of that. That's what makes me believe in a kind of collective unconscious, a sort of experience you draw on.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.