I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Peter Shaffer

You can't always let people do their own thing.
Peter Shaffer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
Peter Shaffer

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Peter Shaffer

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
Peter Shaffer

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
Peter Shaffer

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

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer