Annie Baker Quotes

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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 kid anymore.
• Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.
• I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
• I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
• If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
• Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
• Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
• 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…
• I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself…
• I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to…
• I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about…
• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do…

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