A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

I'm pretty good for an old geek.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.