Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.
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.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.