The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
From Tom Stoppard
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
I can't remember what my first script was.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.
I don't even know what my voice is to this day.
Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.
As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
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