You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
ALAN BENNETTThere is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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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.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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