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" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "

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" One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while. "

" Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. "

" I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. "

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

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

" I don't even know what my voice is to this day. "

" In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that. "

" Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' "

" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

" Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. "

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

" My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. "

" I always loved rock 'n' roll. "

" It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. "

" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

" I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured. "

" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "

" My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. "

" 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. "

" Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. "

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

" As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. "

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