Timothy West quotes

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 of having to go somewhere else. (Timothy West)
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. View quote
Timothy West
I don't believe in right-angled turning points. View quote
Timothy West
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. View quote
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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 sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much. View quote
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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 watch committee, local council or whatever. View quote
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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 make it available to new audiences. View quote
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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 back in the hands of the local authorities. View quote
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The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them. View quote
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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. View quote
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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 them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could. (Timothy West)
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 soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. View quote
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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 the really frightening thing. View quote
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I'm reluctant to use the word class so much. View quote
Timothy West