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.

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

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

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

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.