I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.

I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.

I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me. Some of these shots you need to think about in advance; you need to have some ideas for them.