Poetry Is The Key To The Hieroglyphics

When You Get Older, Then You Feel Death Not At The End Of The Road, But Death All Around You, In Everything. Life Is Saturated With Death. I Feel Death Everywhere.

What Politicians Want And What Creative Writers Want Will Always Be Profoundly Different, Because I'm Afraid All Politicians, Of Whatever Hue, Want Propaganda, And Writers Want The Truth, And They're Not Compatible.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.

I'm Vey Bad At Marshaling Arguments. I Can't, At A Dinner Party, Explain Why I'm A Socialist And Why Others Should Be Socialists As Well.

In Those Days, The Early 1980s, Tv And Film Were Interchangeable.