#out

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

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres. ↗

— Timothy West

#always #audiences #been #could #doing

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. ↗

— Timothy West

#because #being #great #impression #long

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. ↗

— Timothy West

#bit #got #kitchen #kitchen sink #much

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing. ↗

— Timothy West

#down #frightening #get #hunt #out

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#already #band #committed #crew #dates

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#although #am #away #been #depressed

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gentlemen #i #ladies #like #out

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#again #being #day #every #every day