Peter Shaffer quotes - page 2

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. (Peter Shaffer)
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. View quote
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They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all. View quote
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Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it. View quote
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What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it? View quote
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All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy. View quote
Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

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Occupation: English Playwright
Born: May 15, 1926
Died: June 6, 2016
Quotes count: 31
Wikipedia: Peter Shaffer

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