I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.