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 would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

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

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

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.

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you will come back and do it differently. So, to avoid getting into a situation where you're altering your performance way down the line you have to just not do it at all. It's hard and I have done it in the past to disastrous consequences!

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.