I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.