The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

I don't believe in sexual love.

I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there will never be another Annette Funicello. I suppose it's the slight starchiness of the innocence that makes it unrepeatable.

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.