My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.