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    Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.

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    For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

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    Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

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    He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.

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    I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

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    I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

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    I can be as contrary as I choose.

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    I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

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    I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

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    If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

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    If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

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    If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

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    I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

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    I just don't believe in generalisations.

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    I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

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    I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

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    I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

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    In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

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    In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

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    I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

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    I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

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    I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

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    I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

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    I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

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    I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

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    It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

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    Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

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    Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

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    Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

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    Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

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    Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

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    Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

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    My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

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    My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

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    My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

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    My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

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    No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

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    Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

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    One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

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    People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

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    Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

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    School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

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    Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

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    Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

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    Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

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    Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

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    The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

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    The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

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    The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him.

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    The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.