There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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