In any adversity gold can find friends.
I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.
What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.