House of Grindlebone Uncertainty haunts my everything

“Ideas are the best thing going. Somewhere there’s all the ideas, and they’re siiting there and once in a while one will bob up and the idea is made known suddenly. Something is seen and known and felt all at once, and along with it comes a burst of enthusiasm and you fall in love with it. It’s unbelievable that you could get ideas and that someone could give you money to make a film from them.

You’ve gotta be true to them because they’re bigger than you first think they are. They’re almost like gifts, and even if you don’t understand them a hundred per cent, if you’re true to them, they’ll ring true at different levels. But if you alter them too much they won’t even ring; they’ll just sort of clank. I really believe it’s like The Beach Boys said: ‘Be true to your school.’ Later on someone might tell you, ‘That’s a very uncommercial idea’, or ‘That’s going to make a hundred million dollars.’ But if you’re thinking about that up front, for me you’re thinking about the wrong things.”