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In America, people will look past a criminal record. In England, they try and shut you up.
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.
I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own rules, or if you're going to look at working class people, you have to do that in a particular 'Isn't it a shame, aren't they oppressed' way, or it's treated comically.