You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.
London centre has a wealth of creative activity but there are parts of London where there isn't a cinema or where library provision is quite weak.
Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.
I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.
The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.
Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.
They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?
