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

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

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.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.