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It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.

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At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

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Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

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I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.

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An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'

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My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.

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I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing.

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I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: July 21st, 1944

Died: August 19th, 2012

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