As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

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

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.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

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.