The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

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

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.