War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.