I don't see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and one's a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.