Against Quote by Adam Rapp

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's…

— Wallace Shawn

Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once…

— Alec Baldwin

I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just have to…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You…

— Dolph Lundgren

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the…

— Edward Albee

“Act I, Scene 1 GARRY: ....My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of me when…

— Noël Coward

“Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the questions that…

— Christian Bale

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because…

— Jason Alexander

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say…

— Justin Hartley

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something…

— Jake M. Johnson