Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that… — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl 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
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally 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
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually… — Alex Raymond 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
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the… — Edward Albee 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
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 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
There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin 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
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm probably most proud of the plays that I've written just because as the playwright, you know, you're God. You get to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able… — Anton Chekhov 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
One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
