Maybe It's Shallow Of Me To Have

Some People Come Up To Be Directors By Coming Through The Camera Department And There's Not A Lot Of Women In The Camera Department. The Ones That Are Have To Kind Of Prove They're One Of The Boys, I Think. I Don't Want To Get Into Trouble With Generalisations But I Think It's A Fair Observation.

Just Driving I Just Was In A Car On Flat Ground And I Couldn't Make It Go. Having Ticked Driving And Taken Three Driving Lessons, I Just Was Unable To Produce Any Motion Whatsoever Under Perfectly Normal Circumstances. I Think We've All Been Busted On Driving, And Riding.

I've Actually Heard People Protesting Furiously About Straight Male Costume People As Well. It's Not Universal And There Are Examples That Break The Mould All Over The Place. In My Experience, It's More Prevalent In The Uk Than In America.

It Was Mainly To Do With Helen Hunt, To Be Honest. That's What Drew My Attention To It. I Was Interested In The Fact That She Was Going To Be Directing. I'd Never Met Her But She Projects A Degree Of Intelligence And It Was Convincing T Me That She'd Be Able To Handle This Sort Of Material Very Well.

I Do Think A Good Story In A Novel Is Fair Game And There's Nothing Wrong With Adapting That. It Sometimes Gets A Bit Facile Where They Think: "let's Get The Next Best-seller And See If We Can Turn It Into A Film."