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 BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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