For Me, Being A Director Is About

I Think That The Romantic Impulse Is In All Of Us And That Sometimes We Live It For A Short Time, But It's Not Part Of A Sensible Way Of Living. It's A Heroic Path And It Generally Ends Dangerously. I Treasure It In The Sense That I Believe It's A Path Of Great Courage. It Can Also Be The Path Of The Foolhardy And The Compulsive.

I Took Four Years Off After 'in The Cut' Because I Wanted To See Who I'd Be Without Work. I Even Tried Being A Hermit In The Wilderness In New Zealand. I Stayed In A Warden's Hut Two-and-a-half Hours Off The Routeburn Track Through The Fjords On The South Island. It Was Early Winter, So There Was No Electricity Or Running Water.

So Many Actors Are Not Open In Front Of The Camera - They Have A Persona.

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.

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.