I've never been desperate to please my father.
One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.
My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering - but they can't be ugly. I think there's so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won't sell.
Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men - that it's so rare to see something like this. We're just not given the opportunity so much.
I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.
It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.
I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.
It's so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.
Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not likable, but they're lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters.
The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at me, or I thought my new dog had gone to the toilet underneath my piano. Lots of silly things.
The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.
At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful.
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.
I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the idea that I should then talk to the world about what is going on seems anathema to me. People can say what they want. I'm not going to change anyone's mind.
This is how much of a music geek I am: if I have a day with nothing to do, one of my favourite things is to just sit at my computer and make playlists of pretty much anything.
If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.
Yes, I'm a complete itinerant. I keep making attempts not to be, but then circumstances make me uproot and go somewhere else again. It's not the worst thing in the world at all; I love it. In fact, I'm probably horribly addicted to it.
The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.
