The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn’t have to change a word. – Harold Pinter
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. – Harold Pinter
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. – Harold Pinter
I wrote ‘The Room’, ‘The Birthday Party’, and ‘The Dumb Waiter’ in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham. – Harold Pinter
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others. – Harold Pinter
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. – Harold Pinter
I don’t think there’s been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He’s unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays. – Harold Pinter
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. – Harold Pinter
I don’t intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. – Harold Pinter
I was told that, when ‘Betrayal’ was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable. – Harold Pinter
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. – Harold Pinter
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work – which I thought was okay. – Harold Pinter
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I’m proved – equally as often – quite wrong. – Harold Pinter
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to. – Harold Pinter
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. – Harold Pinter
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society. – Harold Pinter
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings – unless they’re Americans – is called collateral damage. – Harold Pinter
One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook’s supposedly ethical foreign policy. – Harold Pinter
All I’m saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: ‘Antigone,’ ‘Mother Courage,’ ‘All My Sons.’ But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way. – Harold Pinter
I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I’ve come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse. – Harold Pinter
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940’s, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. – Harold Pinter
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. – Harold Pinter