It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

I really love writing themes and melody.

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

Create with the heart

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.