I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

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

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.

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?

I don't think estates are grim places.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.