I'm Dead Against The Idea

Why Live Outside The Us? Do You Want Health Care Or Safe Food Products Or Democracy Or Something? They're All Overrated. Stay For The Excellent Cable Tv.

In The Theatre, The Actor Is In Total Control. The Director Wasn't In The House Last Night, The Designer Wasn't There, The Author's Dead. It's Just Us And The Audience.

2d Looks So Flat. Well, It Is, Of Course, It's Flat. But 3d Isn't. And For An Adventure Story That Takes You Into A Long-distant, Fictional World, It's Ideal, I Think.

Some Directors Don't Tell You That It's Not Your Fault, So You Get Increasingly Depressed That You're Not Delivering What's Required, And Then You Discover It's Not You At All, It's Something In The Background That's Out Of Focus.

The Demographic Of Our Audience Is Young. It Also Contains A High Proportion Of Black, Jewish And Gay People, Who Have All Been Encouraged By Society To Think Of Themselves As Oddities Or Mutants. I Hope That's Why X-men Chimes With Them - It's Certainly Why I Was Attracted To The Idea In The First Place.