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

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" When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' "

" Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. "

" My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' "

" When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about. "

" I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. "

" 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 don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "

" You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. "

" In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. "

" I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. "

" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "

" One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed. "

" When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. "

" I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. "

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "

" Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" Good things, when short, are twice as good. "

" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "

" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "

" To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? "

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

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "

" To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction. "

" Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. "

" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "

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" When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now. "

" I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism. "