The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

A good piece of art raises questions.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

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

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've played an awful lot of repressed people.