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With is to get each actor to really make lists of real people they know. and i then, and this involves long discussions, one on one, with nobody else there, with each actor, and we gradually — i finally whittle it down and choose the source, or usually sources, from people they know. so it means the actor has got somewhere to start, something to — like an art... like the artists, like the students looking at the subject, at the model in the life drawing class the actor has got, you know, he or she is going to start to stand up and play this person they actually know, and then that person t...

Film, we can't talk about a character, because there isn't a character. you and i are going to collaborate to create a character, and you will never know anything about the whole thing, except what your character knows. so they don't know about the other characters? not until, not until and unless they meet them in the context of the work. are they banned from talking to the other actors about... absolutely. but it works totally. everybody enters into the spirit of it, and there's never been a case where anybody has, as it were, broken the rules or cheated. people, they... ..actors are highly ...

Because... david halliwell, who was a close friend and a very talented guy, he's no longer with us, but he wrote the play so he could play the main character, malcolm scrawdyke. and to cut a long story short, he was impossible to direct. he'd say, "oh, a director's just a chairman." i'd say, "why don't you move over there on that...?" he'd say, "why? "i could move there, i could move anywhere." and so... at this point, i'd already... and we've talked about this, i'd already formulated notions about... because i wanted to write and direct and i'd formulated notions about other collaborative way...

Without any question, a simple statement about democracy, i think my films must be understood to be implicitly political, rather than overtly political. you once said, i'm going to quote you here, "i know i return endlessly "to the same preoccupations, but i'm not always aware of it initially." what are those preoccupations, do you think? well, i mean, if you look at my films and plays, you know, about how we live, relationships, work, responsibility, surviving, secrets and lies, you know, the stuff of living really. class ? and class, yes. it's funny, it's interesting, i didn't put that insti...

Related to theatre or film, was the foundation course at camberwell. but it was there that i had a really seminal experience as an artist. we were all sitting around... ..and had a nude model, and everybody was quietly drawing away, and i looked around the room, and i thought, what is happening in this room is something that we never experienced for one split second at the royal academy of dramatic art. really creative work is happening, everybody in the room is looking at something that's real and finding an organic, truthful way of expressing it, which we didn't do as student actors. it was ...