Bruce Robinson, cult director of the classic comedy 'Withnail & I', award-winning writer of the political drama 'The Killing Fields', and bestselling author of the acclaimed autobiographical novel 'The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman', reveals his thirty-year addiction to turning fact into fiction in this new collection of interviews.
Talking candidly about his battles with the studio during the making of his cop thriller 'Jennifer Eight', his anger at the film which emerged from his explosive research into the development of the atomic bomb, 'Fat Man and Little Boy', and his growing pile of unmade projects stretching back to his days as a penniless actor, the man who once demonstrated 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising' now explains how to get behind the camera and in front of a typewriter - and how to stay there!
