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

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

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

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

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

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

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

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

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

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Hillary's [Clinton] not a fighter.

While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

The wise are above books.

I want to feel that I own things.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!