If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
ALAN BENNETTThe liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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