We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.