"Any performer tries to perform music as if for the first time, with all that energy and excitement that comes from discovering a new piece--maybe trying to recreate the memory of falling in love with a piece when hearing it first as a child--and just as people regularly say of a brilliant conductor that they seem to conduct as if recreating the energy an audience must have felt when the piece was first played decades, even centuries, before, so too I think we need to communicate our knowledge with the passion we first encountered as children."
Scottish satirist, writer, director, and producer known for The Thick of It and Veep. He also directed films including The Death of Stalin and The Personal History of David Copperfield. He was born in 1963.