Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potterwas an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth17 May 1935
Dennis Potter quotes about
thinking land childhood
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
people adults enough
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
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?
regret single-mom dying
I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.
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.
childhood personality fatherhood
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
language metaphor
Metaphor is embodied in language.
television filth
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
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.
beautiful creative analysis
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
animal important-choices political
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.
past long looks
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.