Edwin Morgan

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

I don't like to get in front of people.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.