Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does'

He found fame as a musician, but now Plan B has turned to film with his directorial debut feature Ill Manors. He talks about his tough upbringing – and the creative urge that set him apartI have looked forward to root-canal surgery with greater enthusiasm than I could summon before watching Ill Manors. Few phrases in the English language conjure dread quite like "low-budget gritty social realism", it being almost invariably shorthand for cartoonish rubbish that will make you eat your own fists...

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