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You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK.

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If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

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The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

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The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

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I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

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'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

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It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.

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I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

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I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

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Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

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I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

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I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

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Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

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I can't remember what my first script was.

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Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

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One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

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I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

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I burn with no causes.

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I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing.

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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

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