"I feel like there's an obsession with pace……" — Annie Baker
"I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant."
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12 Quotes by Annie Baker
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I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a…
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Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness.…
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I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
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I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
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If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
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Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still…
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I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly.…
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I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting…
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I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in…
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