"I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups."
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"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
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"I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross."
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"I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them."
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"Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me."
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"I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children."
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"I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced."
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"I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie."
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"British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous."
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"I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes."
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"If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional."
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"If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall."
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