It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

Sometimes beauty can be a trap.

I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.