“I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families.” PeopleKnowsMenMadeStillsDifferentRunningFilmYoungMotherClassKnow HowBrotherGayBuiltMy BrotherBeastGasWorking ClassExoticCleanersGay MenCab Author:Duncan Roy
“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.” MenYearsBigsAgeFacesYoungHouseBoysSunFiveTypeBecomingMen And WomenOvercomingNervousAwfulEmpiresHospitalsOld ManHeroicArrangementsNestsFlewBreakdownThirteenVictorianCuckoosNervous BreakdownOne Flew Over The Cuckoo's NestEmpire Of The Sun Author:Duncan Roy