Pete Walker(I)

After directing La casa delle ombre lunghe (1983), he decided to retire from filmmaking. He owns a couple of cinemas around England called Picturedome.

I was the uninvited guest to the British film industry. Nobody wanted to know me. I knew I wanted to make films, but I would see these serious-looking guys going around with scripts under their arm, spending three or four years trying to get their films made. I couldn't be like that - I had to make a living and I wanted to get behind a camera and shout "action". So I would go out and shoot something like L'allegro college delle vergini inglesi (1969) - God, that was a terrible film - and a few weeks later every cinema in the country would be showing it.