In the Eighties, the landscape was changing. No one knew if they had a future. It's not like now. There was no satellite. Kids were still out on the ….

The violence at the end is about personal torture..

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the….

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one.

In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods, skinheads, New Romanti….

I suppose my dream was always about existing outside of London. Obviously the film world 10 years ago, when I first kicked off, was a very different ….

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!.

If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because every….

Every kid comes to a point in his life, where you listen to your Dad, but then you go into the street and you start listening to the views of other p….

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo….

In London, there must be thousands of people in the business of making films, whereas in Nottingham or Sheffield, you're probably talking about below….

There were more people against going into Iraq than there were going into the Falklands... but the shame I carry as a British resident, was that it w….

Bullying and violence that exists in someone can also be inherent in a nation without us knowing it..