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…

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

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…

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai

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…

- Romola Garai

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

- Romola Garai