If You Take A Loud Pride In

There's Lots Of Things That Can Be Solved With Cash. And There's Occasional Things That Can't Be Solved With Cash, Which Become A Bureaucratic Nightmare For Some Reason, And There's No Distinction Between The Two.

The Most Extraordinary Thing, You'd Be Given Permission For, And Then The Weirdest, Simplest Things, You Just Wouldn't Be Able To Obtain Permissions. And It Would Go On And On And On Forever And Ever, And There Was No Way To Know. You Have To Kind Of Approach It With An Open, Quite Optimistic Mind, No Matter What's Thrown At You, Because It Will Only Ever Result In Damaging The Film If You Let Any Kind Of Despondency Get To You.

I Think Women Assess Time Passage Much Better Than Men - Because Of Their Biological Clocks - And They Are Much More Realistic About Measuring Out Time, Whereas Men Tend To Hang Onto Things. Women Acknowledge The Biology Of Their Time, And Dance Through The Beat Of That Drum...whereas Men Just Drum.

When You Have Children Your Own Hypocrisy Becomes More Apparent Because You're Telling Them How To Behave, And You're Not Behaving Like That Yourself. So It Obliges One To Really Go In And Try To Look At Why There Is A Huge Gulf Between How One Knows One Wants To Behave And How One Actually Does Behave.

Your First Film Is Always Your Best Film, In A Way. There's Something About Your First Film That You Never Ever Get Back To, But You Should Always Try. It's That Slight Sense Of Not Knowing What You're Doing, Because The Technical Skills You Learn - Especially If You Have A Film That Works, That Has Some Kind Of Success - Are Beguiling. The Temptation Is To Use Them Again, And They're Not Necessarily Good Storytelling Techniques.