184 Quotes by Harold Pinter

Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.

I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.