“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I had a book of Bible stories when I was a kid. There was a picture I'd look at twenty times every… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great… — 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
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
