Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to m….

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone..

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don'….

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just re….

I'm too disorganized..

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than….

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing..

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics..

And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we….

You have to be quite stupid to act..

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously..

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible..

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics..

It's really hard to make a good film; it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can be described with more th….

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge b….

I love to take baths..

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in je….

Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from different cul….

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts..

We're on this rock and we can choose to treat each other well or we can choose to kill each other and be uncivilized. I don't know. It's very tragic.….

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well..