I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.