One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
