I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

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

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.