It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.
I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.
As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.
I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.
It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'
I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.
The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.
Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.
'Dredd' was a weird, little, out-of-the-blue thing for me.
That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'
I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.
Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.
