i think the film says quite a lot about the english class system and we were aware of that, the sort of death by one thousand cuts that a dinner table can give you. "have you got the right tie on?" the right music playing?" how we fit into that. it says a lot about creativity, i think. when your creativity is on the wane, how do you prop that up and how do you know that you are toxic? and that is interesting. great writers steal. veteran actor richard e grant plays the pre—eminent novelist, a man obsessed with finishing his latest work. but at what cost? if you're asking whether my son's death has inspired my writing, the answer is no, i will not be writing about his death, i will be writing in spite of it. i knew that we had a clever, witty script. what i didn't know was how funny it was going to turn out to be in the edit. and what i think richard brings is — you know, he made his name on