The Piano Ended Up On

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.

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 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.

In Some Ways Holy Smoke Is About People's Journey To The Heart.

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.