I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.