It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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 Bennett Quote - I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/i-think-the-writers-quite-low-down-in-the-hierarch-683x1024.jpg)
![Alan Bennett Quote - [talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/talking-about-the-holocaust-but-to-put-something-i-683x1024.jpg)
