Filmmaking Is Something I Have To Do.

Just In Relation To Women, It's Not That Huge An Imaginative Leap To See The Connection Between The Taliban And The Catholic Church.

The Acting I Got Into By Doing What We Call Pantomime, When I Was Sixteen. And, There Were Loads Of Very Pretty Girls In The Show. I Realized; I Found Out Very Early On, That The Lead Comic Gets The Girl. So, That Was Cool. When I Went To University, I Studied Economic Social History. And Drama. That Kind Of Got Me Into It. My Main Passion Was To Make Films. It Was Never To Be An Actor. At That Time, There Weren't Many Opportunities For A Working Class Scottish Actor. It Was Kind Of An English Thing. And It Required A Certain Mannered Cerebral Acting Style That I Couldn't Relate To.

Watching People Just Look Out For Themselves, I Think, Is Extremely Interesting. It Goes Right Back To Something Like 'the Beggar's Opera' - The Underbelly Of Society, How It Operates, And How That Reflects Their So-called Betters.

You Have To Just Go With Your Imagination, Where Your Instinct Takes You.

The Vatican Has Tried To Condemn 'the Magdalene Sisters' As A Pack Of Lies And That I've Made It All Up - I Wish I Was That Good A Dramatist - And In Terms Of Public Relations, That Was The Daftest Thing They Ever Did.