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The arts have always been in and around my life.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

Only 10 percent of people who go to art school will still be making art in 10 years. To some extent, you have to want to do it. It's hard. It is something you really have to stick with for it to work.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.