There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

People who think my books are autobiographical which they're not credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do however have a powerful imagination.

'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical but as I always pointed out at the time that's not my dad.

There is something sinister something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance melancholy. There's a sadness to it but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is at best presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.