It's A Luxury To Be

I Had A Daughter Who Was 9 Years Old And I Had The Feeling I Wasn't Going To Be A Real Parent If I Didn't Quit Making Movies For A While And Spend Time With Her. I Also Felt That I'd Made Enough Movies And Said What I Had To Say At The Time.

If You Read Keats's Poems, They're Often Full Of Doubts And Anxieties. They Can Be Quite Tough.

I Seem To Have Been Able To Make A Career Out Of Doing What I Feel Like Doing, So Why Not Keep Doing It? What's Corrupting Is Wanting To Be More Important. You Want To Be More Arty - You Get Your Identity From That. Or You Get Your Identity Out Of Making More Money.

Because There Is That Sort Of Feeling That People Don't Know What To Do With Gaps In Their Lives. It's A Scary Notion, But Actually, If You Can Stand In Space Just For A Little While, A New Door Will Open, Or You'll Be Able To See In The Dark After A While. You'll Adjust.

A Message I've Been Telling Myself: The Cinema Is Very Conservative, And Unless You Have A Story That Satisfies You, That Is Within The Unchallenging Zone, But You Love It, You Can't Do It As Cinema. Otherwise, You Better Go Do It For Television, Which Is More Daring Now.