I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.

Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

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

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.