I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.