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I Don't Think Playing It Safe Constitutes A Retreat, Necessarily. In Other Words, I Don't Think If, By Playing Safe He Means We Are Not Going To Delve Into Controversy, Then If That's What He Means He's Quite Right. I'm Not Going To Delve Into Controversy. Somebody Asked Me The Other Day If This Means That I'm Going To Be A Meek Conformist, And My Answer Is No. I'm Just Acting The Role Of A Tired Non-conformist.

I Choose To Think Of Tv Audience As Nameless, Formless, Faceless People Who Are All Like Me. And Anything That I Write, If I Like It, They'll Like It.

It Is Difficult To Produce A Television Documentary That Is Both Incisive And Probing When Every Twelve Minutes One Is Interrupted By Twelve Dancing Rabbits Singing About Toilet Paper.

Infinitely More Taboos, On Television.

Essentially, The Scripts Are Not That Different. Let's Say, In Literary Terms, It's The Difference Between Writing Horizontally And Writing Vertically. In Live Television, You Wrote Much More Vertically. You Had To Probe People Because You Didn't Have Money Or Sets Or Any Of The Physical Dimensions That Film Will Allow You. So You Generally Probed People A Little Bit More. Film Writing Is Much More Horizontal. You Can Insert Anything You Want: Meadows, Battlefields, The Taj Mahal, A Cast Of Thousands. But Essentially, Writing A Story Is Writing A Story.