The Simple Fact Is, Offense Is Taken,

It's Interesting That Music In This Country... We Sort Of Sold Something To America With The Beatles And They Sold Something Back. And We've Never Been Afraid To Embrace American Style Rock 'n' Roll And Make It Our Own Over Here.

When You Think Of Things Like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, They Are Beating Film On A Regular Basis. Most Films Are Terrible. It's Only The 2% That Are Good. There's Things You Can Do On Tv Which You Can't Do On Film. There Is Something About Those Episodic, Serialisations That Are Grand And Operatic.

I Had Great Memories Of Growing Up In A Working Class Estate. I Remember It Being Sunny All The Time. So We're Putting That On Screen. It's Not People Wallowing In Degradation.

The World Is Not Entirely Comic And It's Not Entirely Dramatic. You Have A Laugh And Then Someone Finds A Lump And You Deal With That. Because That Is What Life Is Like.

What Is The Single Most Important Thing For A Company? Is It The Building? Is It The Stock? Is It The Turnover? It’s The People, Investment In People. My Proudest Moment Here Wasn’t When I Increased Profits By 17%, Or Cut Expenditure Without Losing A Single Member Of Staff. No. It Was A Young Greek Guy, First Job In The Country, Hardly Spoke A Word Of English, But He Came To Me And He Went ‘mr. Brent, Will You Be The Godfather To My Child?’. Didn’t Happen In The End. We Had To Let Him Go, He Was Rubbish. He Was Rubbish!