I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me,… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
