I think it took a long time for me to realise that as much as I respect reviews and do engage with reviewers as a viewer of the theatre, television and film it's really unhelpful. Even if people make perceptive and interesting comments about your performance, it is so subjective and you will come in and change what you do, you can't help it.
I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.
I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.
