I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?