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.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

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

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.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.