Pollyanna McIntosh

“I didn't find it that hard to channel the animalistic side of 'The Woman', I studied animals like apes and wolves, and researched how to throw off my feminine ways and just went out into the woods for a few days to learn how my body would feel if I had to do what she had to do.”

“I definitely have no stability in my world; I feel the need to be up and merry all the time.”

“It was never a question of, 'Do I get to go and direct?' It just made sense.”

“I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again.”

“It's funny that for women in horror, we have to use the term scream queen, because there is no term for a villain in horror who is female and powerful.”

“Getting married and divorced really is a learning experience.”

“I've been working for a while with a Scottish suicide prevention charity called The Joshua Nolan Foundation that brings the conversation about mental health into schools and provides free counseling for those who need it.”

“I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.”

“But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny - which most girls are not - then you are forced to be unhealthy.”

“I now don't mind if people know about my modelling because I don't feel like it really matters. I feel like I have proved myself as an actress, to some degree.”

“I completely love directing.”

“It's a pretty weird feeling when a wolf is scared of you.”

“The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.”

“As far as Lauryn Canny's performance as 'Darlin', it was just so incredibly nuanced and raw and and she's such a hypnotizing person to watch on screen.”

“I was spotted in Glasgow and asked to enter a competition to find the Highland Spring Face of 1995 by the Storm agency. I won the Edinburgh heat, then I won the title in London and moved there aged 16.”

“I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.”

“If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.”

“I'm not a fan of horror movies at all, I'm a real wuss when it comes to the genre and I think 'The Woman' would totally scare me if I hadn't been working on it.”

“Mind you, I was a bit of a naughty one when I was younger.”

“We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society. We're not coming from 'women's world' into filmmaking, we're coming from 'the world.'”