To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.
I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.
