Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

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

When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.