I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting …

- Lee Hall

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

- Lee Hall

Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's wh…

- Lee Hall

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but n…

- Lee Hall

There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

- Lee Hall

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

- Lee Hall

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes eve…

- Lee Hall