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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

My films are about embarrassment.

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

I don't believe in private education.

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more...

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through,...

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