Mike White's writing

It’s OK to be a ghost. It has its pleasures. You’re light. You float. You slip in and out unseen. There’s no love to lose or burden to be. You have so little to hold you down. You are free. Some pearls are never found. They hide under the sand on the ocean floor. No one knows they’re there. But the pearl knows. Maybe there was a time he wanted to be found. To be seen. And to be held. But now, only hope hurts. I am my own secret. A secret kept by me.

Mary Poppins

"Life is messy, difficult, dark and complex. Feuds can be made up but never completely solved. Books can try to reflect this sadness and lack of resolution as P.L. Travers books did, even for children but Hollywood films take a different approach. In a way it's like Hollywood itself is a Mary Poppins or an aunt Ellie. It's tidying up the nursery, it's finding a way through the chaos. We want to believe as much now as we did in 1964 that redemption's possible and that is both the lie and the miracle of Hollywood films, that it all be neat and tidy at the end. At some deep human level, it's that order, we crave" - Victoria Coren Mitchell