Light entertainment means it mustn't teach you anything.

The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're handing them. They have to take it.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.