You can't always let people do their own thing.
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My first stage play was a play about a family, an unhappy family, divided against itself, and it was originally called Retreats.Peter Shaffer
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.
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Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
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You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
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I began to read everything I could about Mozart, who I've always felt, I suppose, to be the greatest of all composers. I still think so.
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We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
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