Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

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

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

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

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

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

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