Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.