Later Career
At the end of the 1970s Garnett relocated to the United States. Garnett's later film credits include Prostitute (1980), his directorial debut, Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) and Beautiful Thing (1996). In his American period Gasrnett lived by the principle "a movie should never be about what its about" meaning that, although the former film is disguised as a Sesame Street style children's film and the latter as a space comedy, these real theme of these motion pictures is racial prejudice.
During the 1990s he became chairman of World Productions, for which, in the role of executive producer, Garnett oversaw Between the Lines (1992-94) and This Life (1996-97) and other productions.
In 2009 an email by Garnett was circulated within the television industry, and published online, in which he argued that the BBC's management techniques "stifle the creativity which the organisation is supposed to be encouraging". Despite his involvement in the independent production sector, a term he finds misleading, Garnett has been critical of it. He has said the BBC no longer has an interest in "poor people". When "occasionally they do" feature, the poor "are smirked at or derided as chavs".
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