so if someone says, you know, if you want to lead with a question and you say, i can t run from the truth, maybe i can phrase it better. if you google your name, almost everything that comes up on the first page involves the word controversial. not really but that is a little bit exaggerated. i think there is a body of work that stands up. the controversial thing do you mind that? yes, i do. it comes and goes. it doesn t mean anything. it s the long-term implications. my work is i think good. and i think you go back and you look at that film, that second and third time a few years later. you might have a i don t know why everybody got so upset about that silly thing. that was the headline. the truth is there s a movie with a dramatic core. great characters. it s fun. fascinated by your early life. your parents. very different, your father and mother. but you said about both of them slightly mad. slightly crazy. which you ve clearly inherited. although you say
it s a very american thing to say that. we re british. we tend to hide our feelings. i love the provocative undercurrent towards them. i love the fact you in your own life are as provocative. you don t really take prisoners, do you? no, i try to be a politician. i try to be a diplomat. i try to do i don t want to offend people. i certainly don t look for fights. because you know what they end up in. it isn t pretty it so what i am interested in is curious about the truth. i go for it. i don t want to run away from what i know. so if someone says, you know, if you want to lead with a question and you say, i can t run from the truth, maybe i can phrase it better. if you google your name, almost everything that comes up on the first page involves the word controversial. not really but that is a little bit exaggerated. i think there is a body of work that stands up. the controversial thing do you mind that? yes, i do. it comes and goes. it doesn t mean anything. i
and you say, i can t run from the truth, maybe i can phrase it better. if you google your name, almost everything that comes up on the first page involves the word controversial. not really but that is a little bit exaggerated. i think there is a body of work that stands up. the controversial thing do you mind that? yes, i do. it comes and goes. it doesn t mean anything. it s the long-term implications. my work is i think good. and i think you go back and you look at that film, that second and third time a few years later. you might have a i don t know why everybody got so upset about that silly thing. that was the headline. the truth is there s a movie with a dramatic core. great characters. it s fun. fascinated by your early life. your parents. very different, your father and mother. but you said about both of them slightly mad. slightly crazy. which you ve clearly inherited. although you say you re calming down. they were divorced early on. you ve been divo