French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I don't like crowds or attention.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

What is the meaning of "APPARENT "...? You will know the meaning when you become one...

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.