I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
