There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
