Art Is Something That Nobody Laughs At

The Arts Community Still Has A Long Lasting Cynicism Of The Importance, Or The Artistic Value, Of Comedy. Comedy Is Just Farting About For Money.

It Is Very Linear Storytelling, And I Think That's Not So Much The Fashion. I Was Watching A New Drama The Other Night Which Was Extremely Non-linear, Where You Flash Back And Flash Forward In Ways That Certainly Keeps You On Your Toes As The Audience. There's Not Much Of That Courage With The Storytelling In Our Maigret Film.

Art Is Something That Nobody Laughs At And Nobody Makes Any Money Out Of Is The Attitude, Which I Would Dispute.

One Of The Conventions That I Always Liked Was Doctor Zhivago, Where Everything That's Written On The Screen Is In Russian But Everyone Speaks English. That Seemed To Me To Be Quite A Good Convention To Follow.

I Don't Think You Should Be Too Absolutist About What You Play And What You Don't Play.