You either are a good director or you're not.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.