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

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

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

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

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.