I am not sure if it was stopped for political reasons. At times you can get paranoid about this. So they are very nervous, even more so today. It's like a League of Frightened Men. He doesn't say it, but the reason is his mortgage, his living.
Nobody wants to be a hero.
They prefer the safe police material or whatever. Then he goes away and I start work. Ken is very much a hands-on director. He's involved in every stage of the scripts. I might write half a dozen scenes, then we sit down, tear it apart and put it back together.