16 Quotes by Ronald Harwood

Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

When he talks about his past, it is as if he is talking about someone else. He never emotionalizes it. He never colors it. It's just: That's what happened. In 'Oliver Twist,' it's much more concealed, but I think it is entirely autobiographical, because of what happens to a little boy, and how he does come through.

When he talks about his past, it is as if he is talking about someone else, ... He never emotionalizes it. He never colors it. It's just: That's what happened. In 'Oliver Twist,' it's much more concealed, but I think it is entirely autobiographical, because of what happens to a little boy, and how he does come through.

God, that's a good question. And it's a dangerous thing for people like me to romanticise. I've never written an actual war story.

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

That argument enters into the equation of fiction and prevents the real judgment of character.

My own theory is that Roman thinks of himself as Oliver Twist,

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.