I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.