They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed… that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, ‘Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?’ Peter Shaffer Read Quote
I’d be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
We… our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That’s not love, it’s just rubbish. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation. Peter Shaffer Read Quote
