I just want to play real human beings. You know, I don't care if they're male or female.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

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

Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.

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.

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 think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.