You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think there's an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that's very suited to directing. I like being in the room… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
One thing I tend to do is ask actors tons and tons of questions to try to get at what they're thinking… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
