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Terrence McNally has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
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I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…
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I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
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Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster.…
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Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director…
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I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
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I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working…
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own…
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Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It…
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Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
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A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
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I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
— Sam Waterston
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director…
— Terrence McNally
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Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from…
— Melanie Laurent
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Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
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A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that…
— Judy Davis
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And I just want to work with good directors and good people.
— Charlie Hunnam
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There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize…
— Peter Bogdanovich
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I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul…
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