Why do I do this? Well, there’s this feeling you get when the door closes to shut out all the mayhem and you find yourself on the inside - a stranger shut in with lovers - and they look back at you with eyes that say ‘See us…’ That’s the moment that makes me realise I live for this. Starlight on lovers - the most human of all the stories and moments and stopping time. Finding this quiet heroic dignity in the middle of the set-pieces and all the madness that turns light and love into a thing that looks down off the mantlepiece one day and says to the old woman on the edge of the bed ‘This was you at your finest, and you were wonderful’. That’s why.
