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Part Of Me Misses The Days When We Have Four Channels In England And We Were All Talking About Everything All The Time.

When I Was Little It Was A Great Time For Film-making, With Stuff Like Mike Nichols' 'silkwood.' The Films You See In That Pre-secondary-school Stage Stay With You In A Very Particular Way.

In Orthodox Film-making, You Never Shoot Sequentially - But With Improv, Obviously Every Move You Make Has A Knock-on Effect; It Is A Cumulative Process. I Have Improvised, On The Non-scripted 'timecode.' It Can Become Entirely Indulgent: Actors Smashing Crockery And Competing Verbally.

Once You Get Into Your Stride, The Camera Becomes Like Another Person In The Room. It's Like Being In A Very Small Theatre Where There Is No Getting Away With Anything Because The Audience Is Centimetres Away From You.

I Like Being In Love, But Loving Is What Is Crucial To Me. Loving Is The Reason To Live.