I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.