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I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.