Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them… — 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
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
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
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
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
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
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
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
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
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
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share
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
