I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

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.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

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

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.

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

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