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 love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think I find being in a room on my own quite hard, which I think a lot of actors do because what we do is so inter-active. It's a very supportive profession... despite its reputation for being highly competitive it's actually one of the most collaborative professions you can do in the arts because you're always working in a team.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.