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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't do anything other than writing. I'm not very able, generally. If I'd not been a writer, I would probably be a very unsuccessful political adviser to someone or have worked for a council.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.
- Good Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my early twenties, I spent six months bedbound with a condition called Cholinergic Urticaria that basically means I'm allergic to heat, including my own body. It was bad.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.
- Confuses
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It's really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone's getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it's very hard being young.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're odd beasts, musicals, but what I like about them is the way they allow windows into people's lives. When people sing, you get an opportunity to see a vulnerability, a glimpse of a life in a messed-up head.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020