“Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)” — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“Lauren: Hey. Um. This is kind of a weird - but do you ever wonder how many times your life is gonna end? A pause. Schultz: Uh... I'm not sure I know what / you-- Lauren: Like how many people… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“I will say that meeting him was like walking out of a dark wood. He's not perfect and I'm not perfect and we have… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
