I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself..

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put y….

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to..

I've always been creative, I think..

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager..

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character drive….

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more..

I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring ….

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing t….

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just….

Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it..

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with i….

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to th….

I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me..

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightl….

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all….

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend ….

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama s….

You have to play the logic of a character..