Vulgarity Is No Substitute For Wit.

I Think It's Always A Challenge To Adapt Something From One Medium To Another - A Novel Into A Film Or A Play Into A Movie Or Whatever.

Sometimes It Is Quite Surprising, The Emotional Intensity Of It. I Was In Ny One Day, In Barnes And Noble, And I Could See This Woman Following Me Around And After A Bit I Stopped And Said 'hello' And She Just Looked At Me And Said: “please Let Edith Be Happy!”

What's Difficult For American Audiences Is That They're Used To A System Here Where You Can Get An Actor For Five Years Or Even Seven, And That Is Signed For At The Audition. Whereas In England, No Agent Will Give You An Actor For More Than Three Years.

I'm Seen As A Chronicler Of The Class System, Which I Don't Think Is Unfair.

Nothing Is Harder To Dramatize Than Happiness.