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

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

I don't even like football.

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

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

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

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