If You Read Keats's Poems,

This Is The First Generation To Grow Up On Thatcher - It's A Different Ethos. It's Money Minded, And It's The Cult Of Yourself. Now That's Fine, Except When It Falls Down, And You Can't Achieve Your Goals - Through High Unemployment, Through The Fact That You Probably Need Inherited Money To Get Anywhere.

I Think Feature Film Can Be Quite Conservative, Because You Have To Now Get Audiences To Come Out, And It's Quite A Hard Thing To Do. Of Course, Television Can Be Conservative Too.

And, I Mean, I Think Poetry Does Need To Be Met To Some Extent, Especially, I Guess, 19th Century Poetry, And For Me, It's Just Been So Worth The Effort. It's Like I'm Planting A Garden In My Head.

Performers Are So Vulnerable. They're Frightened Of Humiliation, Sure Their Work Will Be Crap. I Try To Make An Environment Where It's Warm, Where It's Ok To Fail - A Kind Of Home, I Suppose.

I Love It When Actors Come To You With A Problem And You Have To Listen. You'd Like Them To Just Get On With It, But It Often Means That There's A Problem With The Script.