“Whenever I look to escape I immerse myself in film and for a couple of hours my head and gut are fully detached from what is around me. I can be left feeling energised and impassioned; joyful or melancholic; optimistic or enraged. I’m changed. This ability to affect huge numbers of people in so many different ways is as close to magic as we can conceive. To cast such a spell is what drives me, excites me, and compels me.”

- Andrea R Ciobanu