Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.