Harold Pinter Quotes

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

It is difficult to make political art work.

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

All political art is bad – all good art is political.

I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.

I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays.

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.

I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.

I'm not a political filmmaker.

The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.