I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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 appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

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.