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

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" If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world. "

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" Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love. "

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" We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since. "

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" Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers. "

" I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me. "

" I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together. "

" In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture. "

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" I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop. "