John Guare

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are…

— John Guare

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and…

— John Guare

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

— John Guare

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all…

— John Guare

I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How…

— John Guare

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

— John Guare

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

— John Guare

“the painter, Cezanne, would leave blank spaces on his canvas when he couldn’t account for the brush strokes, or the color”--- “How…

— John Guare

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

— John Guare

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can…

— John Guare

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a…

— John Guare

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together…

— John Guare

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

— John Guare

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

— John Guare

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I…

— John Guare

Bob, it's the second night of violence in this normally quiet, yet generally swinging, Casino Capital of the East.

— John Guare

I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

— John Guare