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…

- Timothy West

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…

- Timothy West

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…

- Timothy West

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

- Timothy West

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

- Timothy West

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 …

- Timothy West

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

- Timothy West

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 …

- Timothy West

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

- Timothy West