I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
They [the American colonists] are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts
Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude.
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.
Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works.
Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
