When I Read Andrew Motion's Biography, I

Performers Are So Vulnerable. They're Frightened Of Humiliation, Sure Their Work Will Be Crap. I Try To Make An Environment Where It's Warm, Where It's Ok To Fail - A Kind Of Home, I Suppose.

Women Often Postpone Their Lives, Thinking That If They're Not With A Partner Then It Doesn't Really Count. They're Still Searching For Their Prince, In A Way. And As Much As We Don't Discuss That, Because It's Too Embarrassing And Too Sad, I Think It Really Does Exist.

But Short Films Are Not Inferior, Just Different. I Think The Short Gives A Freedom To Film-makers. What's Appealing Is That You Don't Have As Much Responsibility For Storytelling And Plot. They Can Be More Like A Portrait, Or A Poem.

Actual Violence Has No Attraction For Me At All.

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.