Nick Willing

He really worried about us more and he made sure we went to schools.

My mother wouldn't have put us in any school.

She was helpful in other ways.

You know, if I had a problem with a movie, I remember I was making a huge epic with Dennis Hopper and Derek Jacoby, this massive ancient Greek myth in Greece and Turkey.

We had massive villages everywhere of ancient Greek

And I was having trouble and I asked her and she said, oh, feathers, feathers.

What do you mean feathers, mum?

Well, just put them in their helmets.

They used to wear these feathers.

And I did it.

I had this whole army and then it caught the wind and it fluttered like a Kurosawa movie.

It looked so good, you know.

She was helpful in that sort of way.

She was helpful with the work sometimes.

Mostly we connected through her work.

And in the end, when I made that film about her, you know, the documentary, that was very important for me personally, because I had all my life

connected with her through her work.

And now she was connecting to me through my work.

We met in the middle.

I was terrified making that film because I felt the responsibility of getting it right