I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became… — 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… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
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… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
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… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
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
For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
