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

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

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

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

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

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