Andrew Haigh

When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema. ”

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless. ”

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that. ”

My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!' ”

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis. ”

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it. ”

I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story. ”

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material. ”

Personally, I don't like to talk too much to the actors about the camera choices because I feel like the way I want them to perform is as if it feels very rooted in the real world and that I'm essentially stepping back and just watching and hoping they feel safe with me watching. ”

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me. ”