I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.