In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

The future of American film lies on television.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.

These are early days,