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 quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

A good piece of art raises questions.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

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.