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.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

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 think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.