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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

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Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

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I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

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I'd love to make a thriller.

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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

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I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.

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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

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