"I don't think people exist outside of their social situation. You can't abstract people from their environment. It al…"

"You can't treat mental health on an assembly line, which is the way it is now organised."

"Unless we get Labour MPs who believe in that manifesto last year we won't get in power. If they've been going to the …"

"[On film executive Nat Cohen, then responsible (according to his rivals) for about 50% of film production in the UK] …"

"MAX STAFFORD-CLARK claims that the decision to ban Perdition from the Royal Court was his alone (Letters, March 3). N…"

"Perdition was stopped because it criticised Zionist leaders in Budapest for co-operating with the Nazis in sending ha…"

"[On politics in the 1960s] There was a feeling that there was a great possibility of political change. Obviously, no …"

"[On where he fits on the left] I would have thought if you want to align yourself to any left current, the one to fol…"

"I turned down the OBE because it's not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who've got it."

"Kes is really about the colossal wastages of kids, whose lives and abilities are written off before they're even in t…"