We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.