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’.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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