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.

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

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

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

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