Rebecca Hall

“Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.”

“If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.”

“I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.”

“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.”

“If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.”

“I was quite quiet as a kid. I sat around watching people.”

“Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men - that it's so rare to see something like this. We're just not given the opportunity so much.”

“I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering - but they can't be ugly. I think there's so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won't sell.”

“One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.”

“There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.”

“I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.”

“We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.”

“I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.”

“I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.”

“I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.”

“It's so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.”

“It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.”

“I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.”

“I've worked on so many films where the script is one thing and then, somewhere down the line - on set, sometimes - it changes, and there's zero I can do about it.”

“If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.”