You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it. — 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 Image
I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — 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
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious.… — 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
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept… — tony kushner Copy Share Image
I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“ROY [COHN]:Please. Let me finish. Few people know this and I’m telling you this only because. . . . I’m not afraid… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — 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
![“ROY [COHN]:Please. Let me finish. Few people know this and I’m telling you this only because. . . . I’m not afraid of death. What can death bring that I haven’t faced? I’ve lived; life is the worst. (Gently mocking himself) Listen to me, I’m a philosopher. Joe. You must do this. You must must…” quote by Tony Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/477/tony-kushner-2204_afraid-of-death_roy-cohn-please-let-me-finish-few-people_2246365.jpg)
