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I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

It's hard writing screenplays.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.