All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

We're going to give [veterans] the right to see their private doctor, get taken care of it, perhaps the private or public hospital.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.