I loved movies ever since I was a kid.

All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.

I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.

I am not a fan of having too much gear.

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.