A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist.… — Tony Kushner 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
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share
