Clubs Quote by Alfred Whitney Griswold

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

— George C. Wolfe

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it…

— Julie Christie

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

— James M. Barrie

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense since the…

— William Monahan

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

— Bernard Malamud

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

— Jean Genet

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

— Jonathan Pryce

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

— William T. Wiley

If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would…

— Stan Lee

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether…

— Lewis Mumford

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to…

— Jamie Campbell Bower