Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.
I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.
I had to be an adult very quickly and didn't have any friends.
I get asked a lot about being a woman within the industry and how difficult it is, and yeah, it is - but it's difficult for everybody... I'm not a 'burn-your-bra' feminist.
I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.
'War and Peace' is about relationships: family relationships, loving relationships, relationships at war... it's a really young story as well.
Christmas in the Buckley household is hilarious - at the family dinner, we all have to do a song, no matter if you can sing in tune.
I like to be out of my depth - that's when I learn the most.
I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.
It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.
Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.
When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.
I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.
I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.
I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'
I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.
The archetype of male hero is so boring. And the pretty, boobed woman is so... boring.
I'm quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.
The things people are ashamed of come through in whatever their outerwear is. I suppose I am always looking for that, even if it's somebody who, on the outside, seems to be perfect.
