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" We go into nature to transform. "

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" 'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns. "

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

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

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

" We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf. "

Doing The Right Thing

" 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. "

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

" Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely. "

" 'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue. "

" 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. "

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

" You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available! "

" I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance. "

" 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 think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it. "

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

" I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare. "

" The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water. "

" There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about. "

" Write first, worry later. "

" The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes. "

" 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. "

" I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat. "

" As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom. "

" In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008. "