Best Tony Kushner Quotes
- I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly… All
- The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping… Altman
- The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're… Abomination
- I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a… Ball
- Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic… Accomplishment
- One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being… Afraid
- As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part… Admire
- And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a… Acropolis
- Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. All
- If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are… Artist
- You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render… Artist
- A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. Barely
- Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. Art
- As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. Actor
- Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction. American
- God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was. Actor
- I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man. Determined
- I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. Avoid
- I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations. Awkward
- I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic. Best
- It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln. Always Seemed
- People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. Art
- The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me. Computer
- The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. Artist
- Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. Criticism