I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“I mean, what kind of literature do you think ants would make if they could read? Not F. Scott Fuckin’ Fitzgerald, not Joyce or D-D—D-Dostoyevsky, not even friggin’ Steinbeck. Wouldn’t make any sense to ’em. You ever read Nabokov’s Lolita? Best book of the twentieth century, but old-fashioned my friend, old fuckin’ fashioned. Same old story over and over again,… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways,… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one of us. Shukhov squeezes everything he can out of a mouthful of soup or a bite of bread…So frozen that he can’t even feel his feet, he trowels cement and lays a cinder block wall with… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
