The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.