Jack Thorne

I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.

I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.

When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.

They're odd beasts, musicals, but what I like about them is the way they allow windows into people's lives. When people sing, you get an opportunity to see a vulnerability, a glimpse of a life in a messed-up head.

I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire.

At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.

I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.

I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation.

My wife would probably tell you I'm quite a dark person all the time!