Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
art definitions
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
being-yourself order about-yourself
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
art believe people
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
mouths trouble knows
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
consequence
Everything we do has consequences.
people adults enough
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
pain loss eden
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
television filth
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
language metaphor
Metaphor is embodied in language.
childhood personality fatherhood
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
imagination
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.