The 5-Minute Interview: Nick Love , Film director
'I have a bad boy reputation but my life is moving away from that'
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Your support makes all the difference.The man behind 'The Football Factory' and 'The Business' also wrote and directed 'Outlaw', which is now available on DVD. Love, 42, is planning a film adaptation of the Seventies cop show 'The Sweeney'.
If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be ...
Digging vegetables, probably. I moved to Gloucester and it's been amazing. I had to learn to cook for myself. We inherited a great big vegetable garden with the house. It's full of asparagus. It's a joy. It's the polar opposite of what people imagine I do.
A phrase I use far too often ...
"Know what I mean?"
I wish people would take more notice of ...
The world: the fact that we didn't want to go to war. And of me: my gentle side.
A common misperception of me is...
I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that.
The most surprising thing that has happened to me is that...
I'm happy. Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.
I am not a politician but if I were, I would change...
This sounds really hokey but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.
I'm good at ...
Getting people interested.
I'm very bad at ...
Admitting defeat.
In a nutshell, my philosophy is this:
I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing, and feeling the whole lot.
Alice-Azania Jarvis
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