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" I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. "

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" I'm good at being funny. "

" It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line. "

" I really just like to be at a desk. "

" One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. "

" The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. "

" Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it. "

" Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. "

" Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. "

" I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. "

" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "

" Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. "

" Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. "

" You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK. "

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. "

" The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. "

" For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. "

" Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. "

" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

" The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. "

" I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. "

" My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer. "

" Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. "

" I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. "

" I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. "

" I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. "

" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "

" I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. "

" If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. "

" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "