“[On The Escort (1999)] This story was always very close to some of my own personal preoccupations. Things that I always had in mind, questions of identity, changing your identity, and at times escaping from it. I’m very happy with my own professional life, so I have a totally different background to Pierre, but I know what it is to wonder if I am who I think I am, or just someone who is trying to please those around him by being what they want me to be.”