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

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

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.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.