You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.