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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went...

I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening...

I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss,...

I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.

Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to...

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own...

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

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