Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
vision culture common
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
too-much obscure
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
helping shows knows
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
age talent has-beens
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
boys wonderful celebrate
The nowness of everything is absolutely wonderful.... If you see the present tense, boy do you see it, and boy can you celebrate it.
thinking land childhood
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
children writing poet
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
children littles creatures
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
people adults enough
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
consequence
Everything we do has consequences.
mouths trouble knows
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
way done yeast
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
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.