this rodney king tape, randy and i thought, well, what if we did a kind of mass video a diary exercise, where we gave cameras to lots of different people in la to tell their stories? so it really was an idea that began with it. and that actually run on the bbc. it was called la stories. la stories, yes. you know, you left the uk for america, as you mentioned, and you went to film school in america, new york. i did an interview with donna langley, who s the chairman of universal pictures, last year, and she was saying she very much felt at about the same age as you, i think that she needed to leave britain to make a success of herself and to, you know, do the things she wanted to do. did you feel the same way? idid. i felt that. i didn t completely understand it at the time because when i was at university, i had no idea, really, what i wanted to do. and i was reading english, which is the perfect way to sort