I Wish We Could Be Decent To

What Le Carré Is So Good At Is Unpicking Something Very Specific About Englishness. That Is Almost Part Of Why I Think He Wrote The Novel. You Can Feel Le Carré's Anger That Someone Who Has Had The Benefits Of An English Education And An English Upbringing Is Using That Privilege To Basically Do The Worst Things Imaginable. There Is An Anger In The Book About That.

Love Your Life. Because Your Life Is What You Have To Give.

I Think If You're Going To Be Conventionally Romantic You've Got To Go All The Way: A Beautiful Dinner Somewhere Lovely, With Boat-loads Of Flowers, Chocolates And Champagne. But It Might Also Be Nice To Wrap Up Warm And Sit On A Roof Somewhere, With A Cup Of Hot Soup And Your Girl, Watch The Planes Come In Over London And Listen To The Night.

Some Of The Greatest Actors Have Turned Superheroes Into A Serious Business: Michael Keaton And Jack Nicholson In Batman; Ian Mckellen And Patrick Stewart, The First Venerable Knights Of The X-men, Who Have Now Passed The Baton To Michael Fassbender And James Mcavoy.

I Loved Adventure Movies. I Loved Movies Where People Went On An Adventure To An Unknown Land, An Undiscovered Country, Or A New Territory. I Think There's Something, Right At The Center Of Storytelling, That People Love About That.