Miranda Otto

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.