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" What's so great about 'Gone Girl' is the conversations it provokes. "

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" It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth. "

" If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty. "

" I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained. "

" You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable. "

" I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and they have all been exceptional. "

" I'm not frightened of what people will think an more. Because, you know, when you're a teenager or in your early 20s, you're always frightened of what people will think. "

" I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay. "

" I think it's one of the great enrichments of life, romance. "

" People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films because, ultimately, that's what the women have always done. "

" The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really. "

" Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile. "

" And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to. "

" You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to. "

" What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you. "

" The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that. "

" I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. "

" I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. "

" Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film. "

" In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them. "

" Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl. "

" I didn't know where film came from when I was under 10. I just thought I'd be a stage actress. I always knew money would be tough, but that never frightened me. "

" It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right. "

" I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too. "

" As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it? "

" You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties. "

" I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do. "

" You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings. "

" I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know? "

" Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. "

" Some women can feel under-qualified due to a general lack of confidence whereas, in fact, they are uniquely qualified. "