I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

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.

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

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

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

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