I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked all the time, you would miss everything. With the exception of portraits, it is generally bad news if people are looking at the camera.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.