Tragedy Makes You Grow Up.

But Short Films Are Not Inferior, Just Different. I Think The Short Gives A Freedom To Film-makers. What's Appealing Is That You Don't Have As Much Responsibility For Storytelling And Plot. They Can Be More Like A Portrait, Or A Poem.

Between 18 And 26 I Acted Professionally, On The Stage And A Little Bit On Television. Acting Is Okay, But It's Quite Pressurized. Then I Went To England - I Wanted To Reinvent Myself.

I Think Feature Film Can Be Quite Conservative, Because You Have To Now Get Audiences To Come Out, And It's Quite A Hard Thing To Do. Of Course, Television Can Be Conservative Too.

When I Read Andrew Motion's Biography, I Wept. It's Something About The Purity Of The Story And How Fresh It Was Because Of The Love Letters Keats Wrote.

For Me, Being A Director Is About Watching, Not About Telling People What To Do. Or Maybe It's Like Being A Mirror; If They Didn't Have Me To Look At, They Wouldn't Be Able To Put The Make-up On.