So Many Actors Are Not Open In

I Did This Super-8 Film At Art School Called Tissues, This Black Comedy About A Family Whose Father Has Been Arrested For Child Molestation. I Was Absolutely Thrilled By Every Inch Of It, And Would Throw My Projector In The Back Of My Car And Show It To Anybody Who Would Watch It.

Actual Violence Has No Attraction For Me At All.

I Think Feature Film Can Be Quite Conservative, Because You Have To Now Get Audiences To Come Out, And It's Quite A Hard Thing To Do. Of Course, Television Can Be Conservative Too.

I Don't Belong To Any Clubs, And I Dislike Club Mentality Of Any Kind, Even Feminism - Although I Do Relate To The Purpose And Point Of Feminism. More In The Work Of Older Feminists, Really, Like Germaine Greer.

The Piano Lesson' Is Very Sophisticated, Easily The Most Adult Or Complex Material I've Attempted. It's The First Film I've Written That Has A Proper Story, And It Was A Big Struggle For Me To Write. It Meant I Had To Admit The Power Of Narrative.