Harold Pinter

English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor88 QUOTES

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Harold Pinter was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Born in 1930 and active for more than 50 years, he became one of the most influential modern dramatists in British theatre and received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for plays such as The Birthday Party, The Homecoming and Betrayal, all of which he later adapted for the screen. He also wrote screenplays for films including The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Trial and Sleuth, and worked across radio, stage, television and film as both director and performer.

“I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.”

REFLECTIONS

“You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.”

MEMORY IDENTITY

“I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.”

REFLECTIONS

“All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.”

COURAGE

“My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.”

REFLECTIONS

“No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.”

LONELINESS FRIENDSHIP

“Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.”

REFLECTIONS

“I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.”

MARRIAGE

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