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I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.