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.
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
Children always turn to the light.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.