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.

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

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.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

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