“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 grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.

What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

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 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.

Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space.

Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?

While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.

I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back.

You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?