If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.