All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option. You go for the safest bottom line and as long as Dahl is selling a lot of books you can't go wrong.

He went out in the back yard and sat down in a chair and played a little bit on film. They wanted to do a segment on him because what he did was so unique.

(We received this letter) because somebody wrote down the wrong thing or dropped the paper. According to the school district, they weren't turned in. I'm not paying for these uniforms because I know Patrick turned them in.

We want to get them excited about flying.

If we feel they're mature enough, we may allow them to hold onto the stick.

I don't see how you can avoid the fact that the books are riddled with sadism, racism, sexism. In books, readers tend to skate over all these horrible ambiguities. The moment they're put on film, it's very difficult to duck them.