Edward Bond

I'm interested in the real world. ”

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. ”

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. ”

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it. ”

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. ”

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. ”

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

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

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time. ”

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