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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/lord-chamberlain-s-readers-or-controllers-which-were-a-handful-of/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

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## More by Timothy West

> [I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/i-m-reluctant-to-use-the-word-class-so-much/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/the-long-and-the-short-and-the-tall-made-a-great-impression-on-me/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/i-got-very-cross-with-the-term-kitchen-sink-it-just-meant-that-you/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror movies you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/the-cool-thing-about-making-a-western-is-that-people-want-to-be-in/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/certain-things-were-deemed-to-be-offensive-it-was-usually-bad-language/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/in-1968-the-arts-council-managed-to-get-a-grant-from-the-treasury-to/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/the-foyers-now-look-ridiculously-small-to-us-because-not-all-that/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/there-were-loads-of-plays-which-were-very-popular-before-and-after/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/there-was-no-real-fringe-theatre-in-london-until-way-after-the-war-so/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/the-bigger-the-movie-is-the-more-agendas-everybody-has-it-becomes/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/suddenly-we-saw-that-you-could-do-plays-about-real-life-and-people/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/no-producer-should-revive-a-play-unless-they-have-a-very-good-reason/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [I don't believe in right-angled turning points.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/i-don-t-believe-in-right-angled-turning-points/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/anybody-can-decide-if-they-have-got-the-money-to-fight-a-case-if-they/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

> [You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-west/you-re-not-allowed-to-step-out-of-whatever-the-rules-are-politically/)

[Timothy West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-west/)

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