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title: "6 Plays Quotes By Israel Horovitz"
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> [What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/what-lou-tyrrell-creates-when-he-has-a-theater-is-a-birthing-center/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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> [I've done nothing with my life but write plays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-ve-done-nothing-with-my-life-but-write-plays/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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> [I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-m-really-into-the-irony-of-writing-vaguely-radical-plays-that/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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> [I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-began-coming-to-paris-in-the-1960s-when-i-was-told-audiences-here/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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> [I don't direct the plays of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-don-t-direct-the-plays-of-others/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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> [Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/plays-are-literature-the-word-the-idea-film-is-much-more-like-the/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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## More by Israel Horovitz

> [Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/lou-tyrrell-has-created-a-theatre-that-is-a-safe-haven-for/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [“Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again and again,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/art-has-no-answers-only-solutions-and-resolutions-art-has-only-vision/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/gloucester-s-not-some-chi-chi-tourist-town-it-s-a-working-class/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/the-holocaust-story-has-been-told-and-retold-so-many-times/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [I was not to the manor born.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-was-not-to-the-manor-born/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-have-seen-dozens-upon-dozens-of-productions-of-lebensraum-in-dozens/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/what-lou-tyrrell-creates-when-he-has-a-theater-is-a-birthing-center/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/if-work-isn-t-rooted-in-comedy-people-will-turn-from-it-or-they-ll/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [I parle Francais like a Spanish cow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-parle-francais-like-a-spanish-cow/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [Radical politics tend to be simple minded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/radical-politics-tend-to-be-simple-minded/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/l-a-is-so-focused-on-tv-and-film-that-theater-is-kind-of-an-arcane/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/any-actor-any-playwright-who-s-worked-a-life-in-the-theater-knows-how/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-felt-no-need-to-write-a-german-bashing-play/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/i-grew-up-in-wakefield-mass-and-there-were-only-a-couple-of-jewish/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

> [It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-horovitz/it-s-not-unusual-for-people-to-like-florida-in-the-winter-i-m-not-a/)

[Israel Horovitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-horovitz/)

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