David Rudkin > Quotes

“Jesus was a revolutionary, in the most elemental sense. In him alone - in him alone the legislator and the demon fuse. He has been taken over just as Marx was taken over. Perverted by the Pauls, Augustines, Constantines, the institution-mongers, the doctrine men. We crucify him over and over.”
― David Rudkin, Penda's fen

“Be secret, be strange,
dark, true, impure and dissonant.
Cherish our flame.
Our dawn shall come.”
― David Rudkin, Penda's fen

“… and the actor who played Arne, was an actor who had worked in a stage play of mine - this was Ian Hogg… Ian said something about Alan Clarke as a director which I thought was the best definition of what it was that made him so extraordinary a director for actors. Ian came to me, Ian Hogg came to me during a break, very early on in the shoot and he said: ‘He’s some quite some guy this Alan Clarke’ and I said: ‘Yeah, he is.’ And Ian Hogg said, ‘He’s listening for what the actor’s listening for inside themselves.’ And I think that says it.”
― David Rudkin