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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his...

I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.

Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.

I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

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