I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.