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

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.

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

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

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

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