Trevor Griffiths

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1935 age 0

   Born

2. 1981 age 46

   CreditRedsscreenwriter

3. 2024 age 88

   Died

• DKDiane Keaton1 title
• SRShane Rimmer1 title
• JHJerry Hardin1 title
• EHEdward Herrmann1 title
• CMChristopher Malcolm1 title
• JRJohn Ratzenberger1 title
• VSVittorio Storaro1 title
• MWM. Emmet Walsh1 title
• JNJack Nicholson1 title
• GPGeorge Plimpton1 title

• 'Strategic penetrations' is a phrase I use a lot for the work of socialists and Marxists in bourgeois cultures ... I simply cannot understand socialist playwrights who do not devote most of their time to television. That they can write for the Royal Court and the National Theatre, and only that, seems to me a wilful self-delusion about the nature of theatre in a bourgeois culture now ... It's just thunderingly exciting to be able top talk to large numbers of people in the working class, and I can't understand why everybody doesn't want to do it.

  Trevor Griffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Estimating the proportion of the script for Reds that he wrote] I'd say 45 per cent. My first draft was 320 pages. The second involved co-writing with [[w:Warren Beatty|[Warren] Beatty]]. The third I had nothing to do with.

  Trevor Griffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [M]y folly was to believe movies were like plays; that you can fight for your vision. Forget it. A movie doesn't belong to you at all.

  Trevor Griffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [On his grandmother] She was blind and her legs went gangrenous, but she was the most important woman I've ever known, untutored and very strong.

  Trevor Griffiths, CC BY-SA 4.0