After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

An awesome friend is everything.

There is always a next time

One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.