When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. — Tracy Letts Books Copy Share Image
You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into… — Tracy Letts Audience Copy Share Image
I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to… — Tracy Letts Believe Copy Share Image
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing. — Tracy Letts Failing Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but… — Tracy Letts Admire Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty… — Tracy Letts Boss Copy Share Image
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Action Copy Share Image
I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my… — Tracy Letts Blessing Copy Share Image
“BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh,… — Tracy Letts English Copy Share Image
Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age… Some men… — Tracy Letts Age Copy Share Image
I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It… — Tracy Letts Actor Copy Share Image
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht… — Tracy Letts August Copy Share Image
When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to… — Tracy Letts Bum Copy Share Image
“Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state… — Tracy Letts God knows Copy Share Image
