A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

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

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

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.

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.

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