Why video games? What is it about video games that brought you to video games, or keeps you in video games instead of going off to make The Mandalorian or something else?

I think for me it's the combination of so many different elements and fields coming together into a single product, so to speak. If you were to work on a film or on a book or a piece of art, it's very singular. Whereas a video game combines so many of these different disciplines together. And I think video games are the only real thing that you can immerse yourself into that world. Equally, with other media, it's not quite the same feeling that you get to capture somebody with the world that you create. So that, for me anyway, was always the appeal of video games: making that cohesive unit of different disciplines.

For me, I just love video games. I've played video games since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I'd rush home from school, play video games. This is way back. Do you remember the Vectrex? I actually brought it up in studio the other day and everyone looked at me like I was from outer space. I was like, okay, I'm getting old. Nobody knows what this is. So there is that connection. But of course, you fantasize about going to work on a film every now and again or doing different things, which I've had the opportunity to do. I've been very lucky. I've managed to work in architectural previs. I've done some film work. I've worked for Apple. I've worked for the McLaren F1 team. I've gone through a lot of industries to get where I am. You just find your path, if that makes sense. But the key thing for me about working on video games is the culture and the people. You don't really get that anywhere else. Especially with CIG, it's a very organic process, putting the game together. And I love that. And bizarrely, the years that I had in catering, not that the catering thing was that bad, taught me to appreciate people more than anything. Because in catering, you're dealing with 70 staff at any one time. That's what I used to have to do. And then you would be dealing with two, three hundred customers at the same time. So you've got to develop your human social skills and be able to communicate clearly and know when you're winning, know when you're losing. So I'm always quite thankful for that experience. It's taught me an awful lot about just working with people and I think it serves me quite well with the team that I'm with now.