One gets the impression-as one does with many of the characters in his plays-of a man so deeply involved with what he’s thinking that roughing it into speech is a painful necessity. When speaking he almost always tends to excessive qualification of any statement, as if coming to a final definition of things were obviously impossible. He speaks in a deep, theater-trained voice that comes rather surprisingly from him, and indeed is the most remarkable thing about him physically. The view from the floor-through top floor where he has installed his office overlooks a duck pond and a long stretch of wooded parkland his desk faces this view, and in late October 1966, when the interview took place, the changing leaves and the hazy London sun constantly distracted him as he thought over questions or began to give answers. Harold Pinter had recently moved into a five-story 1820 Nash house facing Regent’s Park in London. Interviewed by Larry Bensky Issue 39, Fall 1966
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