My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
