It's A Luxury To Be Able To

I'm Someone Who Loves To Play. I Make Films So I Can Have Fun With The Characters.

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.

There Are Some Things That Are Real, That You Can See, That You Can Observe, Like The Moon, And Grass And Things. But For Ideas To Become Real, They Have To Be Played On Your Senses.

It's Been Such A Deep And Amazing Journey For Me, Getting Close To John Keats, And Also I Love Shelley And Byron. I Mean, The Thing About The Romantic Poets Is That They've Got The Epitaph Of Romantic Posthumously. They All Died Really Young, And Keats, The Youngest Of Them All.

My Musical Knowledge Is So Bad It's Embarrassing. When Composers Discuss Music With Someone As Primitive As Myself, They Have To Talk About It In Terms Of Senses And Emotion, Rather Than Keys And Tempo.