Nothing Brings You Closer Together Than Blind

In Filming You're Waiting. You're Waiting For Lights. You're Waiting For People Set Things Up. And When You're Not Waiting, You're Repeating. And Neither Is Conducive To Spontaneity, You Know. Comedy Makes You Very, Very Neurotic Because You Think, I - But Did I Nail It?

If I'd Loved My Chemistry Teacher And My Maths Teacher, Goodness Knows What Direction My Life Might Have Gone In. I Remember There Was A Primary School Teacher Who Really Woke Me Up To The Joys Of School For About One Year When I Was Ten. He Made Me Interested In Things I Would Otherwise Not Have Been Interested In - Because He Was A Brilliant Teacher. He Was Instrumental In Making Me Think Learning Was Quite Exciting.

When I Visited Coffee Farms In Ethiopia, The Farmers Could Not Believe We Spend A Week's Wages In Their Country On A Cup Of Coffee In Ours, Because They See So Little Of The Profits. Oxfam's Fair Trade Campaign Helps Right This Wrong.

There's A Paraphrase About Orson Welles Saying: "great Films Are Made By Great Directors And The Rest Are Made By Everyone Else." I've Been Very Lucky... Before I Start Insulting The Profession Of Directing, But I Think A Good Director Is Everything And A Bad Director Really Is Nothing At All.

I Think It Helps To Get A Film Made Because People Who Put Money In Are Nervous. They Like To Have Something Recognisable Enough To Make Them Secure That There's A Pattern There - That Someone Else Put Their Money Into Something Like This And Made It Back.