I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Once Ive finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.

I don't think estates are grim places.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.