[…]union card wasn’t all right at Covent Garden, so they booted me out of that and sent me into the Wardrobe Department, where I was making earrings and headdresses and bits and pieces. DB: Hugh Skillen: I noticed the name in your cv here. He was a very famous man for making crowns and hats and st[…]
[…]have would be our own culture. I think the present attitude of 'things must be returned' is a bit questionable. I mean, if it's, if it's the shrunken head of somewhere and they have things about their own, things should be buried where they come from, well, fair enough. But when it's artefacts, I th[…]
[…]es. But while the river must live was about water pollution only shadow progress was more generally about the environment. And it hit the nail on the head at the time. I certainly don't count it as my best film or my favourite film, but it certainly was my most successful film. And again, the direct[…]
[…]ly virtually impossible for me to leave the country while my mother was still alive. So I stayed in England and then went to work for about a year as head of film at the Iliad television service. Then after that, I went and taught television technique at Canterbury College of Art for a year. Then I […]