I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there [with].

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.