I'm Trying To Write Something In Which

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.

Weak Minds Sink Under Prosperity As Well As Adversity; But Strong And Deep Ones Have Two High Tides.

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.

I'm Not Good At Standing On Platforms And Persuading People To My Political Point Of View. Nor Would I Seek To. My Gift Is Completely Different. It's For Presenting An Imaginative Version Of The World Which I Hope People Would Recognize And Be Affected By.

The Most Important Playwright's Gift Is To Hit Your Time And Speak To Your Time.