Although it may be the easiest, it's not always the best.

We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Goodness transcends badness.

I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much!

If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

We all have our own areas where we are gifted or where we struggle and that's at the heart of everyone's journey.

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

I am a big fan of movies from the ’70s.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

The more technique there is, the less there is

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.