I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how they interact. It's true that I'm hypersensitive to all that. Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.