I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,… — 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
