'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of… — Tracy Letts 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
I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use… — Tracy Letts 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
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
“VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill. BILL: Horseshit.” — Tracy Letts Copy Share
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. — Tracy Letts Copy Share
“You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. — Tracy Letts Copy Share
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
“We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.” — Tracy Letts Copy Share
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work… — Tracy Letts Copy Share
