I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.
I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.
Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [. . . ] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming. " "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [. . . ] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?