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 BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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