I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

It's always good to be underestimated.

I feel the importance of dance is drastically underestimated.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.