There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. — John Guare Hope Copy Share Image
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet. — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it.… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing… — John Guare Drama Copy Share Image
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 Actor Copy Share Image
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones,… — John Guare Cities Copy Share Image
I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what… — John Guare Artist Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all… — John Guare Dublin Copy Share Image
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry,… — John Guare Ballet Copy Share Image
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us… — John Guare Alive Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know… — John Guare Book Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got… — John Guare Actor Copy Share Image
