For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying.

I really wanted to do a comedy. I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one. I tried with two little parts in comedies that were more mainstream, I was kind of fumbling around, and then I read The Brothers Bloom and knew it was the one I wanted to jump into. Did it take adjusting? Actually, it's not really any different from doing drama.