Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Look, at those foolish men in my day we did it the proper way!” he started to say as if he was looking deep within his memory.

I have a fear of being boring.

I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

I don't worry about things that aren't important.

Feel for others - in your pocket

The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!