This is high praise considering he still finds the adaptation of The Snowman "corny" despite conceding that "film-making is a very different form from books and you have to make something commercially viable so putting Father Christmas in as [producer] John Coates suggested was right, even though I hated it at the time".
We might have to make something impossible possible...
"Personally, I feel you have to make something for yourself.
What do you have to have to make something a song?
silly ones that we almost haven't a clue what to write & have to make something up.
You have to make something worthy, he said, and then hope for lightning to strike.
"You can take the money, but you have to make something for it.
"We were sitting there, we are artists, we have to make something out of it.
When I get the urge to post something, I have to make something first".
But sometimes you see something disgusting, and you think, O.K., I have to make something better than this.
"What are you doing here?" I hadn't even anticipated this moment, when I would have to make something up.
