About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that. — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
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