I Hate People Eating On Film. I

You Can't Control How Other People See You Or Think Of You. But You Have To Be Comfortable With That.

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

The Whole 'r' Rating Depends On A Strange Sort Of Fantasy Land Where All Adults Are Responsible People, And Children Only Ever Go To The Cinema With Their Parents.

I Believe Kids Shouldn't Be Taught Shakespeare. They Should Experience It First By Seeing A Great Production.

There's A Heartbeat In Any Country That Carries On Regardless - At Least In Europe. That's What Worries Me About America, Because I'm Not Sure What That Heartbeat Is - Unless It's The Heartbeat Of Someone Who's Just Arrived, Who Just Ran Over The Border Two Weeks Ago.