I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
“I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.”