I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.