I Was One Of Five Very Clever

The Bfi Exists To Celebrate All Poets Of World Cinema, Of The Past And Present.

Once You Start To Realize That A Film Is The Sum Of Its Editing, Then Editing Is The Thing You're Always Looking At.

I'm Interested In Stories Which Insist On A Dog Fails-to-eat-dog Kind Of World. I Hate Misanthropy, Want To Believe That There's A Possibility That We Might All Be Redeemed, That Hope Deferred Makes The Soul Sick, That Our Humanity Is Fragile, Funny, Common, Crazy, Full Of The Longing For Love, The Failure Of Love.

The Imaginative Leap For Me Of Writing For Women Is No More Difficult Than The One Of Writing For Men. I've Always Wanted To Have Women Well Represented In The Work That I've Done Because I've Always Been Around Them And Around The Way They Look At The World.

I Am A Teller Of Stories. A Weaver Of Dreams. I Can Dance, Sing, And In The Right Weather I Can Stand On My Head. I Know 7 Words Of Latin, I Have A Little Magic... And A Trick Or Two. I Know The Proper Way To Meet A Dragon, I Can Fight Dirty But Not Fair. I Once Swallowed Thirty Oysters In A Minute. I Am Not Domestic, I Am A Luxury And, In That Sense, Necessary.