There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.
Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
Soho House is normally a private-members club, but the Berlin one has a hotel open to the public. Many beautiful rooms in a cool location, and who knows who you'll run into in the lobby!
I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different.
I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything.
The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.
I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.
I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour.
When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.
I find, in film, we're always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I'm quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I'm just really loving it and feeling great, and it's all over.
I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.
Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.
In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket.
In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.
There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.
As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.
The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.
People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.
I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.
I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.
