I was a really pretentious teenager.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.