“A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters ...” — Timothy West Quote

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

“Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.”

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

“In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got heavy metals in it. It's got bad stuff in it.”

“I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.”

“I reject most conventional wisdom.”