Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror movies you are always trying to convince them. People in horror are always worried it's going to be this schlocky thing, and you're always trying to convince them that it's not. With Westerns, people immediately react with, "Oh,… — Timothy West Copy Share
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
The bigger the movie is, the more agendas everybody has. It becomes more of a job for everyone, but on these small movies, you're… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
