[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people ask me what is my main inspiration Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say it is the ancient Greek drama Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you take a play like Medea that's written 2300 years ago Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is about a woman who murders her children because of jalousy in relation to her husband Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if that is not a crime story, I don't know what a crime story is Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only difference is that there is no police officer in it Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in Greece at that time there was no police force Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can assure you if they had had a police force, there would also have a policeman in the play Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this story uses the mirror of crime to look upon contradictions in society Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is what interests me. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at McBeth, take McBeth and put Richard Nixon in there: Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have the same story, in a way. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I can say that, yes, there are also pure crime fictions that inspire me. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example Sherlock Holmes. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because many histories talk about English society, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about hypocrisy, about many things Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I don't see any differences by writing crime fiction or another novel Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, I put up my cheek a little and say that crime fiction is one of the oldest literary genre that exists Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not invented by Edgar Alan Poe, it's much older than that. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of my ancestors were musicians, they were playing in churches, organ players and Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my grandfather was a composer and I think that when I was young I also thought of myself as a musician Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I realised quite quickly that (I was playing the violin) that I would never be as good as I would want to be Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I, in a way, chose another instrument because you have to understand that writing is a sort of instrument you have in your hands Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on the other hand you might say that music is a very essential part of writing