The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
From Tom Stoppard
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.
If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything.
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
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