I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active...and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.