Film Director

Career:
I worked on 'Grange Hill' at 14 and went to RADA at twenty three and then Bournemouth Film School.

Films - 'Valley Girls', 'Mad Cows', 'Very Annie Mary'.

To get success:
It's like emptying the seven seas with a coffee cup. You just keep at it and you don't look back. You don't expect anything and you hope for everything! That's what the game has taught me!

Highlight:
Winning the Sundance International Film Makers prize and returning back only to find I had won the Orange Prize! That was on equal joyous footing with winning the DM Davies prize - the first time any film I had written/directed was screened!

Low:
Being pulled from a gala premiere at Sundance Film Festival because the financiers didn't think it was best for sales.

Words of advice:
Mean it! You have to want to do this more than anything else! You need perseverance, optimism and obsession.

Worst job:
Selling ironing pads in Croydon dressed up in a twee kilt!

Schooldays:
It would take a book to tell you. I have no exams whatsoever. I have been asked to leave three schools and now they all ask me back!!!