My Main Memories Of My Father Are

In All Fields Of Creativity You See The Result Of Work That Has Become Habit. Where The Creative Impulse Has Become Flaccid Or Has Died Out Altogether, And Yet Because It Is Our Work And Our Life We Continue To Do It.

I Was A Savage For So Many Years Of My Life. There Was Some Seed Of Determination In Me That I Was Not Conscious Of. I Was Mostly Consciously Getting Into Trouble And Drunk.

It Must Be Hard Interviewing Actors.

I Don't Torture Myself. And I Do The Work Because Of The Pleasure Involved. I'm Satisfying A Compulsion I Find Nigh-on Irresistible. It's Not Necessarily Because Of The Work Itself. I Just Feel The Need For A Period Of Regeneration Afterwards. Like Leaving A Field Fallow When You've Grazed Too Much On It. I Feel Depleted.

The One Thing That I Appear To Have Been Given, Bearing In Mind That I Am Capable Of Being Very, Very Scatty And Extremely Lazy, Is The Ability To Concentrate On Something I Choose To Give My Time To.