I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

I still dislike phones, yeah!

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.