Quotes from Pollyanna McIntosh

I've always had far too much emotion to be Scottish.

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.'

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 like having a laugh, I like feeling really comfortable on set, so with a sex scene, it's always really planned out for me beforehand.

Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it - that can be on your own terms.

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

I completely love directing.

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 felt that 'The Woman' was a feminist movie at heart.

Getting married and divorced really is a learning experience.

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

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 have that wonderful release of growing up and thinking, 'I can do whatever I want. I can prioritise for myself.'

If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it personal.

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.

After graduating from University, I began directing in theatre too, and I've been directing, writing and acting ever since, which has allowed me to continue this traveler lifestyle.

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

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

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

The worst fear you can have coming from a modelling background is that you're going to be a model-turned- actress - a mattress, that's what I call them, ironically, I hope.

I think 'ex-model,' especially in the UK, smacks of being shallow and stupid and having no soul.

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.

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