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I Never Used To Kill Characters, Because I Thought Killing Characters Was Cheating.

In Those Days, The Early 1980s, Tv And Film Were Interchangeable.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.

Are We Simply Waving Farewell To The Days When Some Of The Most Interesting Thinking In Europe And America Came To Us From Our Fiction Film-makers? Bbc2, Which Once Introduced And Showed Great Films, Now Shows None.

One Of The Depressing Things In England Is The Total Orthodoxy: The Law Is Handed Down From Downing Street.