In my work theres always been a duality between sticking to reality and trying to stage things.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.

More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.