Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it..

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a pla….

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character w….

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape tha….

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'.

Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen - I don't throw anything away. I prefer to giv….

Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people….

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave..

Personally, I prefer to play against the look: If a character appears particularly unhinged, with makeup running down her face, I like to play her as….

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's wh….

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was ….

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other….

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people..

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they ti….

Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be rea….

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive..

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute ….

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face..

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smel….

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage..

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for th….