I Suppose I Have The Tastes Of

One Of The Things I've Always Thought Is A Drag In So Many Period Adaptations Is That They Are Always Buttoned Up To The Neck In So Many Clothes All The Time. I'm Always Looking For Excuses To Get Them Out Of Their Clothes.

Look At Jane Austen. Her Characters Derive In A Reasonably Straight Line From Fairy Tales.

From Time To Time There Is A Move To Do A Little Less In The Way Of Period Dramas, But People Rebel. Audiences Say We Want Them. There Is A Big Hunger For Them. I Don't Think It's Sentimentality Or Nostalgia, It's Often That They Are Simply The Best Stories.

The Bbc Fulfils A Wonderful Cultural Function. Maybe The Problem Is That It Feels It Needs To Be Everything To Everybody.

The Older I Get, The More Fun It Is To Write Young People. It's Just A Holiday From What Is Becoming Old Age, Really.