1 Look at these sentences. Change them into either direct or reported speech. 1 ‘This is the most fascinating play I have read in a long time,’ the director said. 2 The conductor of the orchestra told the reporters that the following day’s concert would be his last before he retired. 3 ‘I think her still life paintings represent her better than her self-portraits,’ the art critic said. 4 Tom said he had to learn the tunes of the songs before he wrote the lyrics. 5 ‘I don’t like abstract art because I can’t understand it,’ my grandmother once told me.