George C. Wolfe

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a…

— George C. Wolfe

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

— George C. Wolfe

You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each…

— George C. Wolfe

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and…

— George C. Wolfe

There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a…

— George C. Wolfe

Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

— George C. Wolfe

There's no place more theatrical than history.

— George C. Wolfe

If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room.

— George C. Wolfe

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like…

— George C. Wolfe

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

— George C. Wolfe

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

— George C. Wolfe

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

— George C. Wolfe

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come…

— George C. Wolfe

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to…

— George C. Wolfe

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

— George C. Wolfe

I think there's an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that's very suited to directing. I like being in the room…

— George C. Wolfe

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

— George C. Wolfe

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

— George C. Wolfe

I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I…

— George C. Wolfe

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve…

— George C. Wolfe

I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision.

— George C. Wolfe

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

— George C. Wolfe

Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.

— George C. Wolfe

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

— George C. Wolfe

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

— George C. Wolfe