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

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

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.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.