Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.
I try and be truthful.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.
For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
I'm much happier behind the camera.
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
I was 18 when I got my first TV job.
