Lee Hall Quotes

• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

  Lee Hall

  Wall, Thinking, Play

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• Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

  Lee Hall

  Play, Theatre, Trying

  "Songs for a Sunderland sex-farce". Interview with Charlotte Higgin, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

  Lee Hall

  Culture, Share, Excluded

  "The Pitmen Painters reminds us that arts funding can change lives" by Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

  Lee Hall

  Drama, Kids, Dancer

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• In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

  Lee Hall

  Writing, Thinking, Dancing

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• From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

  Lee Hall

  Kings, Profound, Theatre

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• There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

  Lee Hall

  Important, Today, Can Do

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