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

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

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

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.

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

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

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.