I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,… — Joseph Weizenbaum 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
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid,… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
