So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will know how to run your lives. You will know if you have been living life to the full, and if you realize you haven't been, you will know immediately how to correct that state of affairs. As soon… — Christopher Durang Copy Share
In my 20s, I was more cynical/despairing (even though I still wrote comically), but I often sent audiences home with rather dark last moments. After a while though, I don't want to send the audience home bummed out, or distressed ... I want to see what's hopeful. I'm not overly cheery all the time, and yet I'm not suicidal either.… — Christopher Durang Copy Share
The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am going to write something about the religious right. I started out by writing something about sexual addiction, and it evolved. . . . I don't look at a calendar and say, Oh! There's going to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that. — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.” — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can sometimes go… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity. Nowadays we have enough terror and pity… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
It is a sin to follow your horoscope because only God knows the future and He won't tell us. Also, we can tell horoscopes… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
![“[The Greeks] went to the open-air theatre expecting the drama they saw to evoke terror and pity. Nowadays we have enough terror and pity in our own lives and so rather than going to the theatre looking for terror, we go looking for slight irritation. And rather than looking for the theatre to…” quote by Christopher Durang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08f/christopher-durang-22423_theatre_the-greeks-went-to-the-open-air-theatre_1275887.jpg)
