A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.
Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.