“This is My Beautiful Laundrette and the reason I chose that is very personal. Of course, the film was, in my opinion, very ahead of its time for all sorts of things. Quite political. It was about race, it was about the gay community... Hanif Kureishi is a really good mate of mine. Stephen Frears, who directed it, his father was my landlord in my very first flat. And then, of course, the other person in it is Daniel Day-Lewis, who I’m a very, very close friend of.”