If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

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.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.