I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed,… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year,… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
