The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need. — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. — John Guare Copy Share Image