I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.