Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

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.

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

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 was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.