Quotes About Athol Fugard

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

In 1973, 'Sizwe Banzi is Dead' and 'The Island,' which I co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, transferred from The Royal Court Theatre to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.