I 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.
STEPHEN FRYOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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