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

I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.