I Think I Made Good

When I Read Andrew Motion's Biography, I Wept. It's Something About The Purity Of The Story And How Fresh It Was Because Of The Love Letters Keats Wrote.

With 'bright Star' And With 'the Piano,' Too, I Felt A Kind Of Sadness About It Being In Such A Different Era, Because Of My Lack Of Experience With The Era. And One Of The Ways I'd Get Over It Is To Remind Myself That Every Film, Even If It's Contemporary, Creates Its Own World.

The Piano Ended Up On Television. Everything Ends Up There Anyway.

It's Harder Being A Woman Director Because On The Whole Women Don't Have Husbands Or Boyfriends Who Are Willing To Be Wives

But I Think It's Quite Clear In My Work That My Orientation Isn't Political Or Doesn't Come Out Of Modern Politics.