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.

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

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

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.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"