The Problem With Being British...

Celluloid Will Be The Next Decade's Black And White.

Although I Behave In A Quite Reserved Way In My Personal Life, Give Me A Stage And I'll Be As Flamboyant As I Can.

Both Of My Sisters Have Been Teachers And They Used To Say You Get Asked Between 300 And 600 Questions Every Day Which You Have To Answer. That's Exactly What Directing Is. And The Vast Majority Of Those Questions Are Not Very Interesting Really, But They Need Somebody To Make A Decision - A Good One Or A Bad One - And They Follow It.

I Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious Films.

I Find My Own Pain And Others' Difficult To Tolerate, So I Always Want To Try To Shift Things So They'll Be Better. But In Doing That, If I Am Coming From A Place Of Ego, I Often Cause Harm. So It's A Struggle For Me To Set My Ego Outside And Find A Softer And More Compassionate Way Of Approaching Things.