Film Director Mike Figgis

"My first attempt to direct James Gandolfini was an absolute disaster - he was winding me up" - film director Mike Figgis talks about the tough time he had on the set of The Sopranos, as well as his new film Suspension of Disbelief - a film-about-a-film-about-film-making.

Also, author Anchee Min on how she persuaded the Chinese authorities that she wanted to move to the US to spread revolution there. Plus, make-up artist Stuart Freeborn on how he combined his own features with Albert Einstein's, to come up with the face of Star Wars character Yoda.

Writer David Sedaris talks about his remarkable images - a stolen mink coat becomes 'a bear that had fainted in my arms'. Film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer on his documentary the Act of Killing, in which the perpetrators of the 1965 massacres in Indonesia, re-enact these atrocities in the style of Hollywood movies. And, reclusive Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, on the best-selling memoirs which shocked his family.

(Image: Director Mike Figgis. Credit: AFP/Getty)