A Lot Of Dramas Get A Bad

American Movies Are Often Very Good At Mining Those Great Underlying Myths That Make Films Robustly Travel Across Class, Age, Gender, Culture.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.

If You Look At Shakespeare's History Plays, What The Setting Of Monarchy Allows Is This Extraordinary Intensification Of Emotions And Predicament.

I Decided To Be A Filmmaker When I Was 12. I Had Utter Clarity That This Would Be My Life.

The Irony Of A Director Going To Film Festivals Is You Never Get To See Any Of The Films.