Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty..

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives..

I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like me….

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a superna….

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I….

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight..

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse….

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema..

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic..

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!.

I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed….

If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other pe….

If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I ….

I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think….

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could..

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silen….

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more bal….

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them..

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do..

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters..

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer..