I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me,… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up. — 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
There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.' — 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
