I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.