Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them.… — Wendy Wasserstein
I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe… — Mary Zimmerman
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane… — Christine Vachon
What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about… — Robert Towne
THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money… — Craig Lucas
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year,… — Gregory A. Boyd
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who… — Terrence McNally
Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted… — Lanford Wilson
I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting… — Athol Fugard
This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to… — Rob Reiner
I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie.… — Stephen Sommers
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible… — Joe Orton
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines… — Paul Rudnick
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't… — Hanif Kureishi
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead,… — Amos Oz
The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not… — Jean-Claude Carriere
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm… — David Hare
A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just… — Richard Greenberg
Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For… — Tony Kushner
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning. — Frederic Raphael
It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who… — Don Hewitt
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 do we tell… — John Guare
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the… — David Mamet
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself… — David Hare
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is.… — Anthony Minghella

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