I Am A Writer Who Was Able

I Was One Of Five Very Clever Kids, The Other Kids Were Cleverer Than I Was And Still Are And Are Very Achieving. The Girls Were Always First At Everything And I Was Always 101st!

I Have Always Believed That There Is A Need For Life-affirming Films.

I'm Interested In Stories Which Insist On A Dog Fails-to-eat-dog Kind Of World. I Hate Misanthropy, Want To Believe That There's A Possibility That We Might All Be Redeemed, That Hope Deferred Makes The Soul Sick, That Our Humanity Is Fragile, Funny, Common, Crazy, Full Of The Longing For Love, The Failure Of Love.

Of Course, Like All Film-makers I've Been Mesmerised By Cinema Since I Was A Child.

The Only Lesson To Extract From Any Civil War Is That It's Pointless And Futile And Ugly, And That There Is Nothing Glamorous Or Heroic About It. There Are Heroes, But The Causes Are Never Heroic.