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

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.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

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.