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Good Storytelling For Me Is Not So Much Technical Expertise, Which I Know Is Applauded Often; It's Actually Freshness Of Approach. It Does Mean You Sometimes Stumble And Fall And Make A Horrible Mess Of Things In Seeking That Freshness, But You Should Always Keep Trying To Do That.

What You Do Is Take The Power [popularity] Gives You - Which Is Very Temporary And Minor But Significant - And Use It. The Danger Is That You Use It On A Vanity Project That No One Wants To Watch.

One Of Dickens' Biggest Influences Was The Growth Of London As A Victorian City, And The Extremes Being Created As It Expanded.

For Us, Destiny Always Feels... If You Obey, It's Almost A Passive Thing.

Most Films That I Do, Whether Successful Or Not, Just Fade Away. They Have Their Moment In The Sun, Then They Are Gone. 'trainspotting' Did Not, And Especially With Journalists. So Whenever I Launched A New Film, I'd End Up Talking About 'trainspotting.'