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

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.

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. But it's not necessarily right for the film — you jump out, you think about the surface, and you don't stay in there with the characters and the story.

I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.