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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.
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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.
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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.
I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.
I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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.
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.
I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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.
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.
I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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.
When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.
I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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.
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.
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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.
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.
I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.