3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.