The Delineation Between The Actor And His

It's Important To Be True To The Events, But The Most Important Thing Is To Get To The Essence Of The Experience. Not To Be Bogged Down In An Academic Way By A Notion Of The Truth. First Of All, The Truth Is An Illusive And Spurious Concept.

Film-makers Should Remain True To Their Principles And Never Compromise, There Is A Real Revival In The British Film Industry But There Is A Danger That We Will Become Colonial Servants Of Hollywood. We Need To Maintain Our Own Integrity.

As A General Habit And General Tendency, I Prefer Not To Bog A Piece Down With A Great Number Of Transitory, Contemporary References, Because In The End, I'm Concerned, Not In An Abstract Way, But An Actual Way, With Creating A World Which Has A Universality To It - Even Though What Goes On Is Made Up Of Texture And Detail, Contemporary Detail.

I Try And Create For The Audience Something That Relates To Real-life Experience. When You're Meeting Somebody For The First Time, All You Have To Go On Are Your Preconceptions And Your Stereotypes And Whatever Else, But Gradually As You Get To Know Them, They Change. They Become More Three-dimensional, And You Start To See Them In Layers.

Independent Filmmaking Has Always Been There And It's Not To Be Forgotten.