A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.
I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.