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

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

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

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

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

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