When diplomacy ends, War begins.
My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.
I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.
I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.
Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.
Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.
Life's too short to be working with divas.
. . . The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.