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

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

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