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.

No one but a fool is always right.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.