There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.