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

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

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

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

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

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

I don't even like football.