Terence Davies Interview
The Deep Blue Sea director on the problems with the modern world
Davies is quite frank about his own anxiety over grand amour: "Possessiveness and distrust and defeat and all those things ... I couldn't take it. I could not take it, which is why I've been celibate since 1980. I simply can't take all that."
There is, however, a new measure of hope in Sea — for unlike Lily Bart, Hester lives to love another day.
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Davies, hopefully, will find his own outlets, and he rattles off a list of potential projects in the offing: There is the long-rumored adaptation of Sunset Song, a 1932 Scottish novel of abiding feminine endurance by Lewis Grassic Gibbon; an original screenplay about Emily Dickinson, a social outsider after his own heart; and finally, and most surprisingly, an adaptation of Ed McBain's novel He Who Hesitates. When I suggest to Davies that this is the perfect title for his next retrospective — think of the boy in Long Day Closes, face pressed to the window; Lily Bart, dying proud but virginal — he laughs long and concurs.
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