Helen McCrory

The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.