I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to moment and some of your takes will be used and some of them won't. I think there are great films you can make with bad performances, and vice versa. There are all combinations of those things. It's really down to the director what happens, I think, so that's why it's really good to work with very talented, bold directors.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

I don't know anything about science.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.