You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all you have to do is make them feel confident and comfortable and assured of what they're actually doing, and you just wind them up and watch them go.

In London, there must be thousands of people in the business of making films, whereas in Nottingham or Sheffield, you're probably talking about below a hundred. So there aren't thousands of people scrapping for the same money and for the same jobs. I went out in Nottingham the other night and there's a really beautiful community of people who are really supportive. It's not this back-stabbing thing, high-rent, high-cost, high-tension. Up here we are independent filmmakers and there's a lovely sense of camaraderie.

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the Midlands and outside of London.

The violence at the end is about personal torture.

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it.

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!