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" I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable. "

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" I'm addicted to 'Game Of Thrones.' "

Game Of Thrones

" Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him. "

" There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. "

" The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. "

" In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music. "

Black And White

" I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living. "

" The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence. "

" My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22. "

" Film has changed the way we look at the past. "

" I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different. "

" It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good. "

" We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice. "

" I love writing, and I love making arts programmes. "

" I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. "

" What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that. "

" Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. "

" I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy. "

" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "

" Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator. "

" It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally. "

Popular Culture

" I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. "

" The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it. "

" In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology. "

" Class doesn't create culture anymore. "

" I'm a class mongrel. "

" In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. "

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "

" I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now. "

" As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. "