"I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street."

“I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.”

“I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.”

“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

“Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'”

“No one prepares to lose ... we prepare to win.”

“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.”

“The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.”

“Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.