An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
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
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the… — Taylor Negron Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too,… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or… — Edward Albee 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 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
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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