Danny Cannon video transcript

For me, culture is just expressing oneself through visual mediums, personal expression of oneself through sound or music or image.

The first films I got to make in Luton, I was constantly trying to make these things look like the movies I was watching on television. When you have that blind ignorance sometimes it works out for you, because you will keep going.

There’s no right or wrongs to what you like: you can like this and hate that, and love that and despise that – that’s when art’s working.

I think the Olympics are really important. It’s always a great time to put flags up from every country. You know, to say, “Here’s what’s good about being different from the guy next to me”.

That’s something that unites us all. It’s a universal language, you know? You can turn the sound down and watch the Olympics.

You’ll communicate with them through sport. In sport, there are rules and there are guidelines and there are referees and in life, there isn’t any of those things.

Life is chaotic and sport isn’t. Sport is structured – you win or you lose, the ball is in or out.

Life doesn’t make sense to me but sport does. Not only can I relax and watch life make sense, but I can see the best everybody come out, that’s what I like about it.

To watch all those men and women out there training themselves with so much discipline and integrity, and watching them be the best of the best. I find that inspiring, that that determination and willpower can win through.

I never want to come to the end of my dreams, you know? I don’t want to ever arrive, I want to always keep climbing.