Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
