I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.