Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head! — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
