Speeches by Bryant.

“What do you look like in pink? I guess that is the question.”

“If you want me to amplify that, this goes to a point I made earlier, and I think Peter Kosminsky made it to you in writing as well—he came in to see me in January. His point was that “Wolf Hall” would struggle to be made now. It was all BBC money. I think others have told you that something like 13 things that have bee…”

“I am trying to avoid too many levies if I possibly can. I am conscious that following the recommendation from this Committee, we are pushing for the levy on arena tickets to support small music venues. Peter Kosminsky has made this argument to me, and I know that some other countries in Europe have something similar, b…”

“If there is evidence, we will look at it. At the moment, we are not looking at changing it, but if people come forward with evidence from the sector then we will look at it.”

“I think Netflix’s “Heartstopper” is also still produced by a British production company, with the rights staying with them.”

“I am going back to my cakeism point. I want a bit of both. Yes, we want American investment, or global for that matter. I would quite like a bit more of Bollywood and a bit more of Nigerian film production to be happening in the UK as well. Ben and Jay said earlier that the UK is the largest film production place in Eu…”

“I cannot find a figure for the square footage of film studio space in Hollywood, but we think that we are pretty much on a par, if not ahead of Hollywood.”

“We do not have a fixed figure.”

“They do a multiplicity of different things on some of these sound stages—dubbing, for instance. Pinewood has the massive water tank that is in Bond movies and so on.”

““Wolf Hall” was made in 82 days on location in 82 different venues, many of them historic sites. The cast all tell me they were freezing from day one until the very end. Incidentally, I have meshed this with our tourism strategy, because lots of international visitors to the UK want to see the places where films that t…”

““Starring GREAT Britain”.”

“Have you seen it yet?”

“Excellent.”

“It is, but it is really difficult to choose what to keep and what not to keep. What we think today that people might look back at in 20 years is not necessarily what they will want. Would we keep all episodes of “The Goodies”? Choose for yourself. “Yes, Prime Minister” “Yes, Minister”—yes. These are difficult decisions…”

“We are looking at copyright.”

“Right. Yes, we are open to looking at it. We are working through how the specifics would work. I do not want to create an overly burdensome system and create an expectation that cannot be met.”

“The one specific that we have already agreed on is shorter projects. They will not have to be for a year. That will start in August of this year. We are still working on elements around portability, which is one of the key things for the creative industries. All the creative industries have been asking for it. It is ve…”

“It seems obvious to me that you have to have a portable and flexible system to be able to deliver a proper apprenticeship scheme in this sector.”

“Yes, that is one of the things that the DFE is looking at.”

“That is a matter for the DFE, I am afraid.”