25 Quotes by Timothy West

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.