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.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

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

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

I don't think estates are grim places.