I Don't Want To Think

I Think The Reality Is Important Anyway.

I Grew Up In A Working-class Family, So I Guess You Could Say I Write From What I Know.

I Wonder Whether My Bleak-o-meter Is Set Differently From Other People's. I Have Such Passion For What I Do That I Can't See It As Bleak. When People Use That Word, Or “grim” Or “gritty,” I Just Think, “oh, Come On, Look A Bit Deeper.” My Films Don't Give You An Easy Ride. I Can See That. The Sense I Get Is That People Have Quite A Physical Experience With Them. They Feel Afterwards That They've Really Been Through Something.

Interestingly, I Never Thought Id Do An Adaptation. Ive Also Been Quite Against Them. I Think Trying To Translate One Medium To Another Is Wrong. I Never Really Felt That Books Fitted Into Film. Generally People Are Disappointed, Arent They?

Dramatically, I Like Darkness, I Like Conflict - But I Don't See The World As Defined By Them.