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 language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

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

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