I Would Say L.a. Is More Polite

I Decided To Be A Filmmaker When I Was 12. I Had Utter Clarity That This Would Be My Life.

The Thing That Fascinates Me Is That The Way I Came To Film And Television Is Extinct. Then There Were Gatekeepers, It Was Prohibitively Expensive To Make A Film, To Be A Director You Had To Be An Entrepreneur To Raise Money.

I Find That After A Screening, People Really Want To Come And Tell You What They Feel.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.

I Think English Film Is Very Embarrassed By Patriotism, Generally.