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

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

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

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

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

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.

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