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To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

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'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.

It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things...

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available!

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

As a director, I start with the visual.

I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.

I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above...

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

Write first, worry later.

I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.

I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.

The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.

In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008.

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