I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done that. And I have always, whether I needed to pay the rent or not, I've always turned down roles which I thought were stereotypical. And so when I look at my body of work in that respect, I am really happy. Because I feel my work does say something positive and that was what I always set out to do.

It is great to be a part of big-budget movies, but it is harder to feel like you are contributing, in the sense that it has such big machinery behind it.

I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.