I think when youre learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument. – James Blake
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and its a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. Ive always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. – Stephen Daldry