Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.