It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.

You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.

It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.