I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.
It's that event that's the beginning of the avalanche of this play. The first loose rock.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.