I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

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.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.