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[…]a what I wanted to do. My father had been a clothing designer, working successfully in America and also with a couple of important people in this country, and he naturally thought that his three sons would all become clothing designers...needless to say, none of us did! So I was not really prepared […]
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[…]ma. The magic of the beam of light coming out you couldn't see where it came from but I knew that when I after seeing a few films I turned my head to try and find out where that being came from. I was hooked. I think it has also to do with the fact that at that time of course throughout the war we w[…]
[…]establishment because you'll learn so much and they were saying well of course they can't they haven't got the establishment to do it and you want to try a larger place and so in the end it was almost in desperation and I think that I told a sorry Gordon McCallum the story and he said Oh, you […]
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[…]nk you go through so many ifs and buts. Am I on the right track. Am I doing the right thing. And they were very supportive. They never forced me into trying to be a doctor or a plumber or a lawyer you know. And I'm grateful for that because some young people get forced by their parents to do certain[…]
[…] no, that's right. And various things like that. And I suppose that must have affected me, all the articles had other film tastes as well, for data entry directors, and all those lovely things which you had, anyhow, I got, I become a member of the Cambridge University, Film Society, which sexually w[…]
[…]7. And, but from Kent I moved over for a short to King’s Lynn in Norfolk because my father was in banking, and then eventually I went to the West Country, to Ross-on-Wye, when I was about six I suppose, I think, or there around. And so I spent all my schooling in Ross, and that was, of course, then […]
