Actual Violence Has No Attraction For Me

But I Think It's Quite Clear In My Work That My Orientation Isn't Political Or Doesn't Come Out Of Modern Politics.

You Know, Sex Is Actually Not So Original As The Way People Love Or The Stories Behind Each Relationship, Which Is What You Remember. Sex Is Sex In The End.

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.

I Took Four Years Off After 'in The Cut' Because I Wanted To See Who I'd Be Without Work. I Even Tried Being A Hermit In The Wilderness In New Zealand. I Stayed In A Warden's Hut Two-and-a-half Hours Off The Routeburn Track Through The Fjords On The South Island. It Was Early Winter, So There Was No Electricity Or Running Water.

I Think That The Romantic Impulse Is In All Of Us And That Sometimes We Live It For A Short Time, But It's Not Part Of A Sensible Way Of Living. It's A Heroic Path And It Generally Ends Dangerously. I Treasure It In The Sense That I Believe It's A Path Of Great Courage. It Can Also Be The Path Of The Foolhardy And The Compulsive.