Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Dennis Potter

Read through the most famous quotes from Dennis Potter




Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.


— Dennis Potter


#either #handle #just #know #religion

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.


— Dennis Potter


#continually #images #parcel #part #personality

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.


— Dennis Potter


#me #mr #television

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.


— Dennis Potter


#culture #now #remote #simply #vision

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.


— Dennis Potter


#child #human #knowledge #lose #must

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.


— Dennis Potter


#childhood #eden #every #experienced #leave

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.


— Dennis Potter


#improves #more #myself #surely #tame

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?


— Dennis Potter


#create #human #leap #metaphor #speech

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.


— Dennis Potter


#act #down #imagination #must #own

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.


— Dennis Potter


#beautiful #construct #creative #myth #opposed






About Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter Quotes




Did you know about Dennis Potter?

The serial was told using a non-linear narrative structure and as the critic Graham Fuller noted in Potter on Potter "as chamber-piece and identity quest Casanova strongly anticipates [later works such as] The Singing Detective. As well as being an intensely personal play for Potter it was his first foray in the use of popular music to heighten the dramatic tension in his work. His father Walter Edward Potter (1906 – November 1975) was a coal miner in this rural mining area between Gloucester and Wales; his mother was Margaret Constance née Wale (1910-2001).

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist screenwriter and journalist. Beginning with contributions to BBC television's The Wednesday Play anthology series from 1965 he peaked with The Singing Detective (1986) a BBC TV serial for which he is best remembered. This work and many of his other widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality the personal and the social and often used themes and images from popular culture.

back to top