Smiles Are The Language Of Love.

I'm Not Good At Standing On Platforms And Persuading People To My Political Point Of View. Nor Would I Seek To. My Gift Is Completely Different. It's For Presenting An Imaginative Version Of The World Which I Hope People Would Recognize And Be Affected By.

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.

Are We Simply Waving Farewell To The Days When Some Of The Most Interesting Thinking In Europe And America Came To Us From Our Fiction Film-makers? Bbc2, Which Once Introduced And Showed Great Films, Now Shows None.

I Fell Into Writing Plays By Accident. But The Reason I Write Plays Is That It's The Only Thing I'm Any Good At.

One Of The Depressing Things In England Is The Total Orthodoxy: The Law Is Handed Down From Downing Street.