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" My brain cells are dying in their trillions. "

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" 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. "

" In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers. "

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" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "

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

" Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. "

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" The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. "

" I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. "

" I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. "

" I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. "

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "

" You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. "

" I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. "

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

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

" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. "

" People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. "

" What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

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

" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "

" Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. "