I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.