We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.