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".

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.

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

As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

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.”