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This Is The First Generation To Grow Up On Thatcher - It's A Different Ethos. It's Money Minded, And It's The Cult Of Yourself. Now That's Fine, Except When It Falls Down, And You Can't Achieve Your Goals - Through High Unemployment, Through The Fact That You Probably Need Inherited Money To Get Anywhere.

Performers Are So Vulnerable. They're Frightened Of Humiliation, Sure Their Work Will Be Crap. I Try To Make An Environment Where It's Warm, Where It's Ok To Fail - A Kind Of Home, I Suppose.

I Think Feature Film Can Be Quite Conservative, Because You Have To Now Get Audiences To Come Out, And It's Quite A Hard Thing To Do. Of Course, Television Can Be Conservative Too.

That's Just How I See Things On A Base Level: There's So Much Going On. Or At Least I Like To Have That Feeling. It's Part Of Being Interested In Notions Of Reality Apart From Storytelling. I Don't Know If It Has Something To Do With Having An Art School Education, Which Makes You Aware Of The Way Visuals Speak, Or Makes You Trust Them More.

For Me, Being A Director Is About Watching, Not About Telling People What To Do. Or Maybe It's Like Being A Mirror; If They Didn't Have Me To Look At, They Wouldn't Be Able To Put The Make-up On.