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.

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.

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

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

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

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.