Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. — David Ives Copy Share Image
“Vanda (as Dunayev): When she becomes herself--an individual. Thomas (as Kushemski): you only say that because you yourself are so individual. Vanda (as Dunayev):… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives Copy Share Image
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. — David Ives Copy Share Image
I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least… — David Ives Copy Share Image
“Vanda (as Dunayev): I am a pagan. I am a Greek. I love the ancients not for their pediments or their poetry, but becausein… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. — David Ives Copy Share Image
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. — David Ives Copy Share Image
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this. — David Ives Copy Share Image
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those… — David Ives Copy Share Image
