I Know Virtually No One Of My

It's Not So Much That I Want To Direct But That I Have To. When I Write Something It Terrifies Me That If I Give It To Someone Else And It Doesn't Turn Out As It Could Have Done, I'd Feel As If I'd Orphaned My Baby.

It Takes A Very Strong Brain To Resist The Absolutes, The Myths That The Media And The Politicians Peddle - The Idea That If You Are Too Kind, Where Does It All End? That Not To Help Someone Is Somehow A Good Idea.

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.

There Are Some People Who Walk Into A Room And They Oxygenate It, By Their Very Being There's Fresh Air. Then There Are Those Who Come In With The Smell Of Death And They Suck The Life Out.

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