A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.