When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk their canary and write two hours more and then are free to collect firewood for the rest of the afternoon. Because I just walk around thinking about plays, and when they seem ready, I don't get out of… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share
It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So,… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
