and that s what i do. so i can t talk about a direct correlation between this ronald searle character or that character in one of my films. it s about a way of looking at life, really. the next big turning point, the next big influence, drawing, life drawing. just tell us about that class. well, here s the thing. i went to rada, i acted for a bit, including in a couple of films. i then went to camberwell art school on the foundation course for a year. i then went to a year in the theatre design department of the central school of arts and crafts, and i went to the london film school, all within four years. for me, what was. ..i mean, of those various kinds of study, the only year i spent, the only thing i did, which wasn t directly
and magazines over the years, in the post war years. how did you discover searle? when i was six, somebody gave me a copy of hurrah for st trinian s, a collection of cartoons by ronald searle, for my birthday. that was it. the great thing about searle is that he was apart from being a great draughtsman he was a fantastic observer, and his style of drawing influenced my style. my handwriting to this day is influenced by ronald searle s style of handwriting. and what was he doing? i mean, just to evoke a sense of his style? well, there are two things, really. one is his observation of character, and his expression of character. but the other is his line. you know, he had a great. ..he had a range of different kinds of line, but he had a great facility
to allow the pen marks to be themselves. you think about the characterisation that ronald searle comes up with in those drawings, those kind of quite spindly characters. they re sort of etiolated figures. is there a link, do you think, in those characters, between those characters and some of the characters that you create in yourfilm? i think the important thing about searle being an inspiration, or, if you like, an influence on me, it s not so much about specific characters. it s about a way of looking at the world. i mean, if you look at my characters in my films, and indeed plays. ..it s never i never allow it to be described as naturalism, it s realism, it gets to the essence of what s real. i mean, you have to believe in it being absolutely real when you see in the moment when you see it. but there s a certain, there s an edge, there s a distillation, there s a heightening, which is a natural thing for an artist like ronald searle to do.
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