“You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.” — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk their canary… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is,… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in… — Richard Greenberg 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 because as… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So,… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
