In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

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.

I Don't See The Theater As An Establishment. The National Theatre Has Always Seemed To Me A People's Theater. It Was Never Meant To Reinforce The Values Of The Government Of The Day, Nor Does It, Nor Should It.

In Those Days, The Early 1980s, Tv And Film Were Interchangeable.

[via Dolorosa]'s Pushing Broadway As Far As It Can Be Pushed. I Stand Before You As A Reporter, And You Have To Decide Whether I'm An Honest Reporter Or Not. And If You're Convinced That I Am Honest, Then I Think That You Will Listen To Me In A Way That You Wouldn't Have Listened To A Fiction Where Scenes Are Made. . . . I've Thought Quite Long And Hard About What I Want To Say In This Play. And If It Means That Every Single Sentiment That I Produce Is Put Minutely Under An Ideological Microscope, That's Fine.

The Great Mystery Of Adaptation Is That True Fidelity Can Only Be Achieved Through Lavish Promiscuity.