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.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

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

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"

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

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.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.