I Didn't Like England. I Couldn't Take

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.

I've Had A Lot Of Different Responses To My Films. I Got A Lot Of Support From 'the Piano,' The Obvious One, But It Feels Like An Ocean, With A Lot Going On - The Goal Is To Keep Alive.

I Think The Whole Tension About Romanticism Is The Way It Builds And Builds, And The Moment It's Consummated, The Tension's Over.

Eight Years Ago, I Was Drawn Into Keats's World By Andrew Motion's Biography. Soon I Was Reading Back And Forth Between Keats's Letters And His Poems. The Letters Were Fresh, Intimate And Irreverent, As Though He Were Present And Speaking. The Keats Spell Went Very Deep For Me.

But I Think It's Quite Clear In My Work That My Orientation Isn't Political Or Doesn't Come Out Of Modern Politics.