The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

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

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.