The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.