As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
BILL NIGHYAs you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
BILL NIGHYI’m not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don’t see the problem.
BILL NIGHYThe job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
BILL NIGHYSomebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .
BILL NIGHYI love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
BILL NIGHYThe phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
BILL NIGHYIt’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language.
BILL NIGHYI’m crazy about James Brown. I’m crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
BILL NIGHYI did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHYI do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
BILL NIGHYWhatever you do, don’t smoke’. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
BILL NIGHYI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
BILL NIGHYYou have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.
BILL NIGHYHunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
BILL NIGHYIn one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHYAnyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect.
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