Dennis Kelly

I've got a six year old, so I'm not accepting that.

I'm not accepting, I'm not accepting that she's going to grow up.

She's going to stay at six.

I've decided that's what's going to happen.

And I don't want to hear anything else.

Does she like Matilda?

She came to see it for the first time before Christmas.

And, um,

She loved it.

She really liked it.

It was a really lovely experience.

You know, that and my mum seeing it.

My mum seeing it was the nicest thing because my mum had never seen anything that I'd done.

She knew that I was a writer, but she didn't really know much about that, you know.

And she, you know, I remember when she came to see it, it was just lovely for her to see it, you know, because she just...

You know, is this kind of crazy big spectacle and the audience were loving it.

And I think that's when she sort of thought, oh, yeah, maybe there's something in this writing.

Yeah, no, that stopped.

That stopped from that moment on.

Well, I mean, I wasn't going to be a writer from leaving school.