It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.