Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I had no plans to be a director.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.