I'm Just The Last English Twit, Really.

I Thought I Was Managing My Expectations, But On Hearing The News I Discovered New And Unfamiliar Vocal Tones. Perhaps I Should Do Another Musical.

It Used To Be That I Was Always Paranoid Or A Loser Or Something So There's Usually Something That You Seem To Associate Yourself With At One Time Or Another.

The English People, A Lot Of Them, Would Not Be Able To Understand A Word Of Spoken Shakespeare. There Are People Who Do And I'm Not Denying They Exist. But It's A Far More Philistine Country Than People Think.

Almost Every Comedy You See Is About People Making All Wrong Choices And Making All The Errors Of Judgement Possible. Good Comedy Is When It Works On This Scale. Because It Is Psychologically Very Real.

It Was Mainly To Do With Helen Hunt, To Be Honest. That's What Drew My Attention To It. I Was Interested In The Fact That She Was Going To Be Directing. I'd Never Met Her But She Projects A Degree Of Intelligence And It Was Convincing T Me That She'd Be Able To Handle This Sort Of Material Very Well.