All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Laughter is the best creative medicine.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.