“In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.”

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

As beautiful as cinema is, it’s a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

I think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.

During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.

The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.

I think it’s good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.

I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.

I like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.

What’s important is to listen before you react.

The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.

For me, it’s always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.

I wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.

What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time.

I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I’ve gained that back.

The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.

Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Ultimately I’m the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I’m pretty good at helping them get there.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.