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Sat 03 Mar 2007Apted's adaptable aptitudeVersatile British director Michael Apted has made everything from country music biopics to Bond films and social documentaries. He talks to Donald Clarkeabout staying flexibleMichael Apted is one of that generation of English film-makers - those born sometime in the 1940s and trained in British television during the 1960s - who seem willing to try their hand at directing just about anything. Didn't he do the last Harry Potter film? No. That was Mike Newell. Was he behind that strange adaptation of Lolita? Heavens, no. That was the flashier Adrian Lyne.