English - Dramatist | October 10, 1930 -
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter
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One's life has many compartments.
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
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