I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.