As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.