Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom is indivisible. You can’t slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo … but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.