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Peter Shaffer

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

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

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"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."
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