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There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
I'm very similar to Chandler in many ways, although Chandler is funnier than me, and Chandler absolutely hates his job whereas I absolutely love my job.
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.