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.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

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

Your whole life informs your eye.