I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.