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

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

Interestingly, I never thought Id do an adaptation. Ive also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, arent they?

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

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I don't think estates are grim places.