What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television. — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. — John Guare Copy Share Image
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