"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."

"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."

"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."

"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."

"My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man."

"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."

"There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming."

"My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it."