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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.

~Harold Pinter

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Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

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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.

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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

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It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.

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You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 10th, 1930

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