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One Of Dickens' Biggest Influences Was The Growth Of London As A Victorian City, And The Extremes Being Created As It Expanded.

What You Do Is Take The Power [popularity] Gives You - Which Is Very Temporary And Minor But Significant - And Use It. The Danger Is That You Use It On A Vanity Project That No One Wants To Watch.

Actors Are Steeped In A World Of Agents And Where The Next Job Is Coming From And What Are Their Expenses And What Is The Hotel Like. You Want To Take Them Out Of That World And Dump Them Into Another World, So That When You Meet Them On The Screen They Don't Seem Like The Guy Who Was In Two Others Movies That Year.

I Grew Up In A City, I'm A City Person - I Go On Holiday And I'm Bored.

We Want To See Drama Told In A Cathartic Way, With Power, With Emotion Where You Empathize And Then You're Frightened. All Those Feelings Charge Up In You And You Feel For The Story.