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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three times a week, and we would watch movies at home. As a teenager, instead of going out, we would have these huge movie nights in. But I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.