Hall: Interesting thing about notes. You can see an actor missing doing something, and if you tell him what he should do, he won’t do it…. But if you say: “I think you were so wise not to . . .” then he’ll do it. It rather works, I find.
Ayckbourn: Remember when Mrs Thatcher invited you to a reception at Downing Street and you asked me to come with you because “she likes you”?