I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never… — Tracy Letts Hell Copy Share Image
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use… — Tracy Letts Action Copy Share Image
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. — Tracy Letts Affinity Copy Share Image
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. — Tracy Letts Create Copy Share Image
“BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom. VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?” — Tracy Letts Native americans Copy Share Image
If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing. — Tracy Letts Failing Copy Share Image
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
“You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love… — Tracy Letts Character Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when… — Tracy Letts Access Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it… — Tracy Letts Advice Copy Share Image
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black… — Tracy Letts Acting Copy Share Image
The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells… — Tracy Letts August Copy Share Image
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't… — Tracy Letts Character Copy Share Image
“We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.” — Tracy Letts Dysfunctional-families Copy Share Image
“VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill. BILL: Horseshit.” — Tracy Letts Horseshit Copy Share Image
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts Dissent Copy Share Image
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more. — Tracy Letts Biology Copy Share Image
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. — Tracy Letts Books Copy Share Image
You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into… — Tracy Letts Audience Copy Share Image
“You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it’s just… — Tracy Letts Whorehouse Copy Share Image
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. — Tracy Letts Book Copy Share Image
I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of… — Tracy Letts Cinema Copy Share Image
All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was… — Tracy Letts Different Copy Share Image
Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad.… — Tracy Letts Bits Copy Share Image
Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up… — Tracy Letts Care Copy Share Image
“BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh,… — Tracy Letts English Copy Share Image
Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age… Some men… — Tracy Letts Age Copy Share Image
I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
