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

I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

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

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

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'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!