I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.