Tony Kushner

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

— Tony Kushner

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you…

— Tony Kushner

“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away…

— Tony Kushner

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math…

— Tony Kushner

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so…

— Tony Kushner

“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the…

— Tony Kushner

“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.”

— Tony Kushner

“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block,…

— Tony Kushner

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody…

— Tony Kushner

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

— Tony Kushner

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that…

— Tony Kushner

“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When…

— Tony Kushner

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to…

— Tony Kushner

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had…

— Tony Kushner

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience…

— Tony Kushner

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

— Tony Kushner

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the…

— Tony Kushner

“When your heart breaks, you should die. But there’s still the rest of you. There’s your breasts, and your genitals, and they’re…

— Tony Kushner

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

— Tony Kushner

You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments…

— Tony Kushner

Nothing's lost forever.

— Tony Kushner

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

— Tony Kushner

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the…

— Tony Kushner

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

— Tony Kushner

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to…

— Tony Kushner