People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math… — 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… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see… — 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
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,… — 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
