I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.
I’ve always loved musical theatre. I’ve always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.
I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.
We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a ‘real’ studio in London for the Radio One session we did.
It’s kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.
If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student’s team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.
Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.
We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.
When you’re reading the news and sometimes you just think, “How bad can things get”?
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.
Most of the people we see don’t want to live in a shelter and feel save in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.
I wasnt a good rule-breaker when I was younger.
If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you’re isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.
I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was – and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization – ranging from modern colloquial to the classics – and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.
I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.
I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.