It Just Seduces You When You Read

We're Trying To Learn From [olympic] Beijing, Which Could Be Very Intimidating. We've Learned To Expect It's Power, It Majesty And That It Completes A Cycle Of Certain Types Of Shows... I Don't Think Any Nation Could Do Anything On That Scale. We Haven't Got That Money, And I Don't Think Anybody Would Have The Appetite For That Kind Of Expenditure And That Kind Of Control, So We're Going To Try And Do Something A Bit More Intimate And Try And Start Again... Start A New Cycle For These Kind Of Ceremonies.

I Love That Sense Of Change That You'd Get In Pop Music Every Three Minutes, Every Four Minutes.

Clearly, You Can Think Back And See That A Character Has Had Enormous Odds Stacked Against Him And Has To Overcome Them. It's Usually A Guy, I'm Afraid. But Then You're Setting Up A New Movie You Have Amnesia About These Meetings, When You've Discussed It More Analytically.

My Kids Are Too Old To Remember This Now But, When They Were Much Younger, I Swore To Them If This Miracle Ever Happened, I Would Receive It In The Spirit Of Tigger From Winnie The Pooh, And Thats What That Was.

That Survival Instinct, That Will To Live, That Need To Get Back To Life Again, Is More Powerful Than Any Consideration Of Taste, Decency, Politeness, Manners, Civility. Anything. It's Such A Powerful Force.