A British Villain Never Loses

A Lot Of Dramas Get A Bad Name Commercially Because They Are Unremittingly Bleak.

I Find That After A Screening, People Really Want To Come And Tell You What They Feel.

With The Coming Of Radio As A Mass Medium, Suddenly The World Changed. It Became About, 'can This Leader Project Emotional Connection Through The Way He Speaks On The Radio?' And The Anxiety About Whether He Could Do That, We've Inherited.

There's Something About Being Cerebral, Intellectual, And Yet Emotionally Repressed [in Being Villain]. If You Think Someone's Doing This [bad] Stuff And They're In Complete Control, That's More Scary Than If They're Out Of Control.

After My Grandfather's Plane Took Enemy Fire, He Was Denied Permission To Land At The First Available Airstrip. In That Classic British Bureaucratic Way, They Said He Had To Go Back To Your Own Airbase In The Midlands. They Crashed Between The Coast And The Airfield.