The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.