Edward Bond Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.”

“I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.”

“Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.”

“Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.”

“We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.”

“The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.”

“Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.”

“I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.”

“Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.”

“It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.”