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

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

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

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.

I don't even like football.

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

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.