I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.