It's Quite Frightening; The Business Of Trying

You Are Exposing Yourself All The Time As An Actor. There's The Risk Of Being Thought Of As Bad Or Boring Or Unattractive.

I Already Feel A Bit Annoyed At Myself For Writing Screenplays. It's A Bit, I Don't Know, Model-singer-dancer-actress That Went To A Posh School. There's Something Too Weirdly Predictable About It.

The Harder The Circumstances Under Which You're Making A Movie, Generally The Better The Friends You Make. You're Far Away From Home And So You're Kind Of Lonely, And You End Up All Gravitating Towards Each Other And The Bar Every Night. It Tends To Be Inversely Proportionate To The Comfort Level On The Movie, How Close You Become To Everybody.

I Spent A Lot Of Time With A Real Detective, A Lady Detective Inspector Who Was The Only Female Detective Inspector In The Whole Of East London. She And I Hung Out A Lot. She Showed Me What She Did And I Spent Time With Her. So, [she Was] A Lot Of The Inspiration For The Way I Dressed And Sometimes The Dialogue In Those Interview Scenes Where We're Cross Examining And Questioning The Youths And Trying To Get A Confession Out Of Them.

The Thing I Miss About L.a. Is Time. I Feel Like I Had Much More Time There, Partly Because No One Is Ever Really Doing Anything.