An Accidental Studio (2019)

Ray Cooper: Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films

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• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : If you got a green light at HandMade it was because it was going to go. It was green lit, you know. That was it.

• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : George was interested in making, you know, stuff the Pythons wanted to make, collectively or individually.

• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : George rang and said, "What are you doing now?" And I said, "I'm not doing very much." He said, "Well, I think I've got a film company. Why don't you be me in the office?"

• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : When the company started to get bigger, you take on more staff, you need to pay more staff, you need to feed the beast.

• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : George understood passion. If he was here today, and I wish he was, he'd be listening to your stories and if he thought that you were absolutely passionate about something, your dream would come true. He would make it come true.

• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : "Nuns on the Run," yeah, it was a nice - film. I suppose I look at it because it was my, it was the last film I was involved in. It was the last film that HandMade Films made - under George's regime.

• Self - Former Head of Production HandMade Films : It would have been nice to think that we could have remained small. That would have been the perfect HandMade Films - making one or two films a year, but, gems that people would put in their back pocket and always want to see again and again.