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I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

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Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

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There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

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Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

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Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

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I had no plans to be a director.

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Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

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I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: February 28th, 1948

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