Tony Kushner

We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You…

— Tony Kushner

I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it…

— Tony Kushner

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the…

— Tony Kushner

Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible,…

— Tony Kushner

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to…

— Tony Kushner

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and…

— Tony Kushner

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work…

— Tony Kushner

And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive…

— Tony Kushner

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the…

— Tony Kushner

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare…

— Tony Kushner

“It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept…

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But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank…

— Tony Kushner

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then…

— Tony Kushner

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math…

— Tony Kushner

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as…

— Tony Kushner

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of…

— Tony Kushner

One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang…

— Tony Kushner

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series…

— Tony Kushner

“When your heart breaks, you should die. But there’s still the rest of you. There’s your breasts, and your genitals, and they’re…

— Tony Kushner