Timothy West Quotes

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• The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of…
• A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
• I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
• I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.
• In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them…
• 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 to…
• The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
• The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
• 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. That's…
• 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 the…
• 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…
• The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother…
• There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or…
• I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to…
• Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
• 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 getting…
• There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and…
• Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the…
• When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a…

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