Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative,… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both… — Drew Hayden Taylor Copy Share Image
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms… — Anthony Zerbe Copy Share Image
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window.… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is -… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image