I felt like a disappointment. I believed I had let my family down. Clearly, I was a screw-up. I couldn’t do anything right. It seemed I hurt people without even trying. I didn’t know better, but obviously, that proved I was stupid. I was so blind...
I find that when people laugh it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff. I'm not interested in other people thinking differently. I don't care. I'm just like yeast - I eat sugar and...
To change and to improve are two different things.
In 10 different takes, you can do a scene 10 different ways.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.
I'm a huge sucker for comfort.
I have huge chunks of time when I'm not working.
I'm a huge Neil Flynn fan.
In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.
I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.
I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
The joy I get from work is just huge.
To change and change for the better are two different things
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
Every tale can be told in a different way.
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which...
