Genuinely can't open it,
and I'm not even being cute.
I've just made a film recently that I've
my first film as a producer and it's a
low-budget movie there's something
really satisfying about when you finish
it and it's done and you think well we
managed to do that and you don't need
all this would be nice to have a little
bit more but and you know you don't need
all these millions and millions and
millions of pounds to make good movies.
Like most independent film it's that
sort of thing of like you think you're
doing it and then it's not happening
and you sign on to do something else
or you sign on the dole.
I'd seen Sean Ellis's previous film
Metro Manila and it blew me away
I think it won best film here a couple
years ago did it, probably not I don't know let me clarify that
I was desperate to work with Sean desperate
to work with Cillian (Murphy)
and it was a no brainer for me.
If I look a bit stunned it's because
I'm a Newcastle United fan and I don't know
about winning anything.
Thank you BIFA I really
don't know , i didn't think of anything
my Mum's really going to shout at me.
Tonight's a celebration about all filmmakers
if we celebrated a moment in your career what that be?
Making I Daniel Blake
with Ken Loach that would be um I mean
I'm 28 I don't know what my career
is gonna look like but I know
that this I Daniel Blake is always
gonna be one of the most important
moments me one of most important moment
of my life not just of my career.
This moment right now having that
question from you
Oh I don't know just keeping going i think really.
It was so many years of just thinking
is this gonna happen and now and it has
so it's really nice and it's a very so
this this moment.
I don't know one moment , I think you know
always for me I always look back at 28 Days Later
is the first really big film I ever did
which was an independent british
independent film and i look back at that
and I'm so proud that I actually finally
got a job they spent nine months being
unemployed after Drama school
and it just felt like such an
achievement for me so I'd say that
movement.
To be honest I think it would be doing my Feral Heart
most proudest I've really been with any
of my work I've done
and to be nominated for a BIFA with My Feral Heart
that's just completely
overwhelming so for me that would be my
shining glory glory moment right now today.
I started here like I was 23
when I first came here on my first break and
in British independent Cinema is so
important to me because he's been my
entire career.
What was the best advice another
filmmaker ever gave you about the
industry ?
Two things, one was to make it personal
the other was to be a to be in love with
the process not the result you know
which is why I think I enjoy being on
set so much these things are cool but i
can't say i enjoy it you know because
this is our result oriented and I can't
control the result you know i can only
control the process.
Just stay true to yourself you know just be yourself
everyone is already taken so whatever
that you bring should have an impact
if you stay true to yourself.
The best advice would be from my lovely
writer Duncan who told me just be yourself
and I think that's the one and only bit
advised any actor in the film industry
could really take on board.
it wasn't a film maker it was Dawn French
and she said to me that i need to
develop a thicker skin to survive the
industry and i think that is so true you
really do need a thick skin because you
can't take rejection personally in this
business and you have to deal with a lot
of it so you have to find a way to cope
with that.
oh I remember talking to Nicholas
Roeg who i'm a big fan of and I sort
of said to him tell me tell me you know
how to be a filmmaker and he said well
you might plan a scene that is based in
the attic and you might have spent
ages planning it and then you might go
to this house and look in the attic and
the basement more interesting
therefore you should film in the
basement.