I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.