You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.