Tracy Letts

Time wounds all heals.

— Tracy Letts

“She's the Indian who lives in my attic.”

— Tracy Letts

I don't have a great face for camera.

— Tracy Letts

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

— Tracy Letts

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

— Tracy Letts

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

— Tracy Letts

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

— Tracy Letts

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

— Tracy Letts

“Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.”

— Tracy Letts

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

— Tracy Letts

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

— Tracy Letts

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

— Tracy Letts

'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of…

— Tracy Letts

I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but…

— Tracy Letts

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty…

— Tracy Letts

“BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom. VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?”

— Tracy Letts

“You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it’s just…

— Tracy Letts

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

— Tracy Letts

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to…

— Tracy Letts

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to…

— Tracy Letts

“Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state…

— Tracy Letts

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It…

— Tracy Letts

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht…

— Tracy Letts

I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my…

— Tracy Letts

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

“BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh,…

— Tracy Letts

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age… Some men…

— Tracy Letts

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

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I…

— Tracy Letts

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

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

“You lack freedom, so you fantasize about it.”

— Tracy Letts

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into…

— Tracy Letts

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

— Tracy Letts

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.…

— Tracy Letts

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

— Tracy Letts

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

— Tracy Letts

I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having…

— Tracy Letts

“We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.”

— Tracy Letts