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

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I don't even like football.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.