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

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

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 don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.