[…]The Independent, people like that. I: Did you enjoy editing The Guardian? R: I did. I did not, actually, get a great deal out of university academically. I didn't particularly care for it and I didn't get a great deal out of it but what did make university for me was working on the newspap[…]
[…]thing that was going. I was also doing programme research, there was one, one, we use to do jokey items like what happens to, one, one I got was what academics in the summer? So we got a whole series of universities who we called up and said can I speak to so and so, every, no one was there [laughte[…]
[…]w did you break this to the family? PB-C: I don’t quite remember. [Darrol laughs] I think my mother was secretly rather pleased, because I’m not academic, I have to say and life at St Paul’s was quite tricky – it’s full of pretty bright kids. And the Arts was my thing, even at that early stage,[…]
[…]y. The Fine Art course at Leeds was a four-year course. It was long because there was a lot of practical stuff involved in it as well, it wasn't just academic study and the way it was structured was the first two years people did the same sorts of things so we all did painting, we all did printmakin[…]
[…] brilliant, and there was a great art teacher, but I wasn't allowed to do art because I was told when I got there that I should do that, not being an academic subject, it would be better if I chose something else. So I did geography and English and maths. I swapped art for maths, unfortunately. I me[…]
[…] and it had a weird collection of very rich kids, you know a sultan, someMaharajas’ sons and failed Etonians. Ones who were expected to do quite well academicallyand brilliant games players. (There's no other reason anyone was there).And so the ratio ofstaff to pupils was minute and I had Robert Bol[…]
[…]ll when I was a teenagerES: and you obviously fell in love with the movies at an early age so how did you then, did you want to transfer that to your academic life or was it just an interest that you had, were you thinking along those lines…?LM: When I went to university I really stopped going to th[…]
[…]until recent years I realised that I had slight dyslexia and that’s why I was. That's what my father saw, that in me there was no future in academics so he decided that he would put me in film industry before… JK [interrupts]: There’s a lot of wind noise coming in. It’s a shame.[…]
[…]and never went back to school. But I absolutely adored the Central School, and in a way fulfilled a little bit of my other interests, which were more academic, because I did a diploma course which meant you had to do exams in poetry, theatrical art and design, French poetry – it was a very interesti[…]
[…] this degree thing and....SF: This was a Masters presumably was it?Y es.SF: An MA?Yes. Which I didn’t, by then I was getting so pissed off it was all academic and I was looking at other films other people had made and I desperately wanted to make something. And I was on a bus and I met this man on t[…]
