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The
following are extracts from an interview with Tony
Garnett, co-founder and Chairman of World Productions,
in August 2000.
Fiction
is the nearest you can get, through the imagination
of a writer, to knowing what it is like to
be another...
"I'm curious about what it's like being someone else. That's one of the things
that keeps me going in this business. It's a very privileged job I have, because
I'm allowed to do that. Fiction is the nearest you can get, through the imagination
of a writer, to knowing what it is like to be another. And that assuages our
loneliness as human beings. I'm also interested in stories, because we need stories
in order to make sense of our lives."
"But there are all sorts of ways to do it, and I'm not imposing one particular
style on the company. In fact I've experimented with other things... I was involved
in the first two series of 'Ballykissangel', which is very different from 'This
Life' or 'The Cops' or the new show, 'Attachments'.
Ballykissangel
is a classic Hollywood form. In Hollywood
it's known as a 'fish out of water'
"Ballykissangel was thought up by Kieran Prendiville, and it was more or less
a one-liner which I just knew was good, because it's a classic Hollywood form.
In Hollywood it's known as a 'fish out of water', and when (Kieran) pitched this
idea of a young priest from an urban parish being sent to a small village in
Ireland, I knew it had possibilities".
So there's
a variety of things being done in the shop
now...
"Now I'm quite keen that it should be a place where producers can do good work
that they believe in, and not just reflect my taste or my sensibility. I don't
want clones of me.
So there's a variety of stuff being done in the shop now although
for many years it pursued what I was interested in. And the
furrow I've been ploughing most of my life is a sort of distilled
naturalism, where we try to find out what life is really like
for people in the real world, and dramatise it".
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