I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
“c. “So, hunny, don’t waste your time trying to label or define me…’cause I’m not what I was ten years ago or… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
