I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last 10 years, and in the top 10, three of the films were my films. I've always been a glass-is-half-full person. I've always gone, "If people aren't going to do it, I'm going to do it".

All the young people grow up too fast and want to be able to do this, or that. When you get to the older age and you have a mortgage, bills, this and that you think: "If I had done that differently when I was younger, then I wouldn't be in this situation now."