In Some Ways Holy Smoke

My Musical Knowledge Is So Bad It's Embarrassing. When Composers Discuss Music With Someone As Primitive As Myself, They Have To Talk About It In Terms Of Senses And Emotion, Rather Than Keys And Tempo.

When I Read Andrew Motion's Biography, I Wept. It's Something About The Purity Of The Story And How Fresh It Was Because Of The Love Letters Keats Wrote.

I Seem To Have Been Able To Make A Career Out Of Doing What I Feel Like Doing, So Why Not Keep Doing It? What's Corrupting Is Wanting To Be More Important. You Want To Be More Arty - You Get Your Identity From That. Or You Get Your Identity Out Of Making More Money.

I Love It When Actors Come To You With A Problem And You Have To Listen. You'd Like Them To Just Get On With It, But It Often Means That There's A Problem With The Script.

Because There Is That Sort Of Feeling That People Don't Know What To Do With Gaps In Their Lives. It's A Scary Notion, But Actually, If You Can Stand In Space Just For A Little While, A New Door Will Open, Or You'll Be Able To See In The Dark After A While. You'll Adjust.