Rachel Joyce

“My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!”

“Silently he had moved within her until deep inside she opened like a flower.”

“All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and still convey so much.”

“Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.”