[…]en, Orson Welles talked about making a movie as being the greatest toy train set anybody could ever have, my train set was one day when I was told at BAFTA that they would like me to look after the theatre and how it should be designed and what the technical equipment should be and that was my train[…]
[…]he nation or did that stay in the family?Jonathan Balcon 21:21 It was, I in fact, when I heard that Puttnam was anxious to acquire it for BAFTA, I offered it to the National Portrait Gallery, which I thought was a better venue. And the family did receive money for it. Not a lot, but I me[…]
[…]t with a pack, you know, to try and sell things. She wanted to be available when wecame from school and so on and that’s how she tried to earn a living. I never remember her bringing home much money.Q But, just one thing you said - she wanted to be available when we came home from school - was […]
[…]inishing. What was I going to tell you? Oh yes, that year, later that year, I had been nominated, The Day the Earth Caught Fire had been nominated by BAFTA, it was then the British Film Academy, it was one of the nominations for the best screenplay, I had so many other pictures for which there had b[…]
[…] we, anything we thought Pet, was a bit iffy we got rid of it, you know, and did a bit more preparation on it and refinement on it. And, and it won a BAFTA.[Laughter] It was, it was a SEFTA then, it wasn't a BAFTA.Yes.So I always believe that it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good after all tha[…]
[…] it and refinement on it. And, and it won a BAFTA.[Laughter] It was, it was a SEFTA then, it wasn't […]
[…]y've got to think about performances, they've got to think about records. I mean there is such a plethora of things. And then on top of that actually living is so complicated, tax and what you do and where you go. I've often said to people the most extraordinary thing I think is that my father only […]
[…]me 21:20 Well my father ,there came a point in their marriage when my father felt that he wanted a wife, rather than an actress living with him. My mother was always away. She was always making a film somewhere or other. And my father, I think, began to get a little fed up with[…]
[…], laugh!” “No to make fun of the British authorities is verboten.” God knows I tried. The Germans to this day- my daughter is married to a German boy living in Munich - don't have humour as we know it. They are unable to laugh at themselves. And therefore at their establishment.NS: There is a German[…]
