Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work. — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work,… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood.… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script. — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one. — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough,… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
