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

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

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

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

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

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

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.