My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

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.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I don't want to massively slag off Marvel, I don't. Because they have just employed a woman to be their superhero, and so hallelujah.

I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.