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

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

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.

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.

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 science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

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