With an artist like Mike Leigh, you give him what he wants. I'm thrilled. ... I think it's an absolutely brilliant family drama.

That would be doing to our audience and our repertoire what I'm moaning about.

I think there would have been a time when the basic history would have been common knowledge. You could have been certain that when the king comes on at the beginning -- 'So shaken as we are, so wan with care' -- they know he's wan with care because the country's been in a state of perpetual civil war since he deposed the previous king, Richard II.

It is an iconic painting by the artist. It fully deserved to make this record for the artist, which is more than three times the previous amount ever achieved by a Turner at auction.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

I feel I was definitely robbed ... I was the best new artist this year. I don't know if I'll be back at this award show next year.