Harold Pinter Quotes About Theatre

Quotes about: Theatre

• The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

  Harold Pinter

  Expression, Theatre

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Complete works”

• As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.

  Harold Pinter

  Running, Dog, Fall

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 26, 2008.

• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Political, Intellectual

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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