We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.