I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.