Be Careful About The Advice You Give,

I Always Do Like To Write Love Stories, Even If They End Tragically.

I Remain, However, Fairly Optimistic For The Future Of Period Drama Because It's Just Such A Popular Thing.

When You See Two Writers Named On A Movie, One Of Them Did Some Drafts And Got The Boot.

From Time To Time There Is A Move To Do A Little Less In The Way Of Period Dramas, But People Rebel. Audiences Say We Want Them. There Is A Big Hunger For Them. I Don't Think It's Sentimentality Or Nostalgia, It's Often That They Are Simply The Best Stories.

As A Fairly Innocent Teenager, Growing Up In A Village In Wales, I Just Thought, "god, I Would Like To Go And Hang About Soho And Write Great Poetry And Try To Avoid Drinking Myself To Death."