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.

I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

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.

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've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.