I Mean, We've All Had Those Dreams

The More Uncompromisingly Specific You Are The More You End Up Touching The Bigger Universal Truths.

Thank You To My Wonderful Actors, The Triangle Of Man-love Which Is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush And Me.

American Movies Are Often Very Good At Mining Those Great Underlying Myths That Make Films Robustly Travel Across Class, Age, Gender, Culture.

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.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.