My grandparents would call it the Kinema, like really Glaswegian. I think if my grandparents and my mum had been given the start in life I had, they would have all been much better writers than me.
I'm not an authority on s Soho. So you have to totally immerse yourself in the world. So I'll listen to the music. I'll read diaries, first-hand accounts β for , I spent the better part of six months constantly reading or going to the Imperial War Museum and listening to recordings of the veterans β so you understand how people speak as well. When I wrote it, both my grandparents had Alzheimer's. My grandfather had recently died and my gran had Alzheimer's but was really fit and healthy, and became a violent woman.
It was just my mum and I looking after her, and I was really depressed. You really thought the world was terrible. You really thought this was a bad place.
I think you really have to take that responsibility seriously and get it right, and I think in film school, even I knew that I wasn't ready for that responsibility. Nor did I have the infrastructure around me to make sure that you could tell the stories respectfully. I think what each of these stories has in common is actually this real pinhole of pure light. If you're going to speak to people in the dark, you should make sure that they're having a fun time.
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