A million pounds sounds like a lot of money now that I'm saying it. But in terms of moviemaking, it's not a lot of money. And yet you can see what can be done with that, with the talent of a great cinematographer and great director and actors.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.