Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.