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

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.

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

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.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Awe! Leaving so soon?” Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. “I was just about to pull out the gun for you to play single-player Russian Roulette.

Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

I love being a gypsy and getting on the bus with the band making sounds for the people who love and enjoy a night of Americana and good times.