Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — 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
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in,… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
