I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.