Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
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.
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.