[Note: In May 2001, Kim Newman called me and asked if I wanted to play a serial killer ("Mr Lost Friends") in a 100-second short film (millimetraggi) he was making (apparently Michael Marshall Smith wasn't available). I said, "Sure. Why not?" It was part of a cable TV competition to script, shoot and edit a film in 24 hours based around a surprise theme. So I ended up spending a day skulking around Islington in North London in pursuit of a waitress from the press launch. Unfortunately, somebody else's film won the competition, but a lot of people thought I played a convincing psychopath. The film was screened at FrightFest in 2001.
—Stephen Jones].