Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
In oratory the will must predominate.
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.