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" Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises. "

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" To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function. "

" Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities. "

" The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion. "

" Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life. "

" All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition. "

" The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger. "

" The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story. "

" I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.' "

" Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey. "

" I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing. "

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" 'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege. "

" I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write. "

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Doing The Right Thing

" When you go into a forest, anything can happen. "

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" I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe. "

" Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker. "

" The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder. "