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

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

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

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