We Started Off Trying To Set Up

I Write Plays About Things That I Can't Resolve In My Mind. I Try To Root Things Out.

My Experience Came Before Most Of You Were Born. My School Was A State School In Leeds And The Headmaster Usually Sent Students To Leeds University But He Didn't Normally Send Them To Oxford Or Cambridge. But The Headmaster Happened To Have Been To Cambridge And Decided To Try And Push Some Of Us Towards Oxford And Cambridge. So, Half A Dozen Of Us Tried - Not All Of Us In History - And We All Eventually Got In. So, To That Extent, It [the History Boys] Comes Out Of My Own Experience.

I Turned Down A Knighthood. It Would Be Like Having To Wear A Suit Every Day Of Your Life.

Definition Of A Classic: A Book Everyone Is Assumed To Have Read And Often Thinks They Have.

It Seems To Me The Mark Of A Civilized Society That Certain Privileges Should Be Taken For Granted Such As Education, Health Care And The Safety To Walk The Streets.