I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.
I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
I dont like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from Shrek about me.
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
Reality can easily become the current fantasy.
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested. ’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.