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

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 always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

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

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.