HOLLYWOOD director Sir Ridley Scott has revealed his new film mirrors his own life.
The North-East born Oscar-winning director said that just like the character Nicholas Cage plays in his new blockbuster, Matchstick Men, he has become an obsessive.
Matchstick Men opens in cinemas next week, and tells the story of a con-artist with an obsessive compulsive disorder.
It is something Sir Ridley, the son of a shipping worker, 65, can relate to. He said: "I can be compulsively fastidious.
"If I am alone and hungry, I am likely not to cook anything for myself because that would muck up the kitchen and then I'd have to clean it.
" I do like to straighten my bathroom towels. I like order. It is easier when I am working all the time. I am anally compulsive."
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