I rarely write by myself.
Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.
Sherlock and Watson are a love story
You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.
That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.