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The English Country House Is Certainly An Icon Of British Culture.

Most Of The Soap Operas Always Use The Christmas Special To Kill Huge Quantities Of Their Characters. So They Have Trams Coming Off Their Rails, Or Cars Slamming Into Each Other Or Burning Buildings. It's A General Clean-out.

One Of The Great Injustices In Fiction Is That On The Whole People With Romantic Yearnings Have Romantic Faces. But In Real Life It's Not Always Like That.

Every Writer Has To Make An Emotional Journey From Artist Sitting In Attic To Being Part Of A Business. The Writer Of A Film Is Like Tinkerbell. You Are Only There Because People Believe In You. The Moment They Dont, Because Youre A Pain The Arse, Youve Lost.

I Think I Have A Very Detailed Sense Of Observation. I Am Interested In The Details Of People's Lives And What Information These Details Give.