I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

She tried to explain to them it wasn't the place that made people uncultured but their attitudes.

Your experiences are the foundation for your story

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.