Trevor Griffiths

"[Estimating the proportion of the script for Reds that he wrote] Id say 45 per cent. My first draft was 320 pages. The second involved co-writing with [[w:Warren Beatty|[Warren] Beatty]]. The third I had nothing to do with."

"[M]y folly was to believe movies were like plays; that you can fight for your vision. Forget it. A movie doesnt belong to you at all."

"Strategic penetrations is a phrase I use a lot for the work of socialists and Marxists in bourgeois cultures ... I simply cannot understand socialist playwrights who do not devote most of their time to television. That they can write for the Royal Court and the National Theatre, and only that, seems to me a wilful self-delusion about the nature of theatre in a bourgeois culture now ... Its just thunderingly exciting to be able top talk to large numbers of people in the working class, and I cant understand why everybody doesnt want to do it."

"[On his grandmother] She was blind and her legs went gangrenous, but she was the most important woman Ive ever known, untutored and very strong."