It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.