A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Give us this day our daily mask.