The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty au….

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bothe….

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the ….

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them..

The bigger the movie is, the more agendas everybody has. It becomes more of a job for everyone, but on these small movies, you're making them because….

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we w….

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local ….

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of t….

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the rea….

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves..

I don't believe in right-angled turning points..

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much..

The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror movies you are always trying to ….

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to n….