Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
STEPHEN FRYI think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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