“Lauren: Hey. Um. This is kind of a weird - but do you ever wonder how many times your life is gonna end? A pause. Schultz: Uh... I'm not sure I know what / you-- Lauren: Like how many people… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely sleep. There are moments of deep despair and anxiety, and then there are moments in rehearsal that are the most exhilarating; feeling seen and seeing everybody. Feeling like you have a purpose on the planet. A… — Annie Baker Copy Share
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“I will say that meeting him was like walking out of a dark wood. He's not perfect and I'm not perfect and we have our hard times but I remember moving towards him through Terminal 4 and it was like emerging from the cold and into the sun. Like waking up from the bad dream that was my life before… — Annie Baker Copy Share
I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But… — Annie Baker Copy Share
I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
