I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.

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 wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

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

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.