The Paris Review - The Art of Theater No. 3

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HAROLD PINTER

The Art of Theater No. 3

Interviewed by Larry Bensky

Issue 39, Fall 1966

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INTERVIEWER Do you think that the picture of personal threat which is sometimes presented on your stage is troubling in a larger sense, a political sense, or doesn’t this have any relevance?

PINTER I don’t feel myself threatened by any political body or activity at all. I like living in England. I don’t care about political structures—they don’t alarm me, but they cause a great deal of suffering to millions of people . . . I’ll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flamethrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess this action from a political point of view.

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