Quotes from Rebecca Hall

'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

If I could be a musician, I'd do it. I love singing.

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

The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at me, or I thought my new dog had gone to the toilet underneath my piano. Lots of silly things.

I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I love being able to express myself through what I wear - and for it to be a way of expressing uniqueness and individuality.

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.

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

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

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful.

When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.

A good piece of art raises questions.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

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.

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.