I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals.… — Sefi Atta 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
Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.'… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the… — Dana Rosemary Scallon Copy Share Image
Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
![“Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.” quote by John Leguizamo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f5a/john-leguizamo-3025_bars_tennessee-williams-one-of-my-favorite-pl_1715850.jpg)
![“There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as…” quote by Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15b/jay-roach-8154_activist_there-were-two-writer-s-unions-in-those_3214086.png)
![“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers…” quote by August Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fdb/august-wilson-3646_ability_i-think-that-as-a-playwright-if-i-detail_2244548.jpg)
