Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament. — 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 want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
