If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask for is more information, which sometimes can really weigh down a play. There's only so much… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I think I have a certain kind of style. I think at the same time, I'm aware that there's certain things that I did… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do."… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share
I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I listen to boleros. But I think it's part of my DNA, it's part of my upbringing. I grew up in a house where this is the kind of music my parents used to listen to. This is the… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share
One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discussed around the table. We talk about the play, and the actors listen, and there have been cases, you disagree on something... I mean, actors don't usually tell you what they're going… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share
Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I actually cut my sentences a lot. I'm very aware of the actor, giving them too many words - just a mouthful of words… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts that I… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
