I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.
I've come a long way from the area where I grew up in Sheffield. It's been a journey, but I've fully enjoyed it.
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.
I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.
When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.
I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.
I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.
I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.
I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details - and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It's a clever way of shopping in this economy.
I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.
