Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together… — John Guare Copy Share Image
People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it.… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all… — John Guare Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I… — John Guare Copy Share
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. — John Guare Copy Share
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for… — John Guare Copy Share
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human… — John Guare Copy Share
And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to… — John Guare Copy Share
