The Orthodoxy Of America Is As Rigid

What Politicians Want And What Creative Writers Want Will Always Be Profoundly Different, Because I'm Afraid All Politicians, Of Whatever Hue, Want Propaganda, And Writers Want The Truth, And They're Not Compatible.

Style Is The Art Of Getting Yourself Out Of The Way, Not Putting Yourself In It.

Obviously Via Dolorosa Is Completely Artificial. It Is As Highly Wrought As Any Of My Plays. But Basically All The Artifice Is To Disguise Itself So You Don't Feel It's There. You're Attempting To Make The Artifice Like A Pane Of Glass That Simply Leads You Through To The Subject - Not To Decorate The Bloody Glass.

Are We Simply Waving Farewell To The Days When Some Of The Most Interesting Thinking In Europe And America Came To Us From Our Fiction Film-makers? Bbc2, Which Once Introduced And Showed Great Films, Now Shows None.

Never Take Advice From Anyone With No Investment In The Outcome.