Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for… — Terence Rattigan
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as… — Vincent Canby
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle… — Norman Corwin
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. — Timothy West
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you… — Beth Henley
I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me… — Alfred Lunt
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has… — Joseph Weizenbaum
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a… — Epictetus
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e;… — Simon McBurney
The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of… — Laurence Sterne
The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.… — Laurence Sterne
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our… — Jules Fisher
Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also… — Jules Fisher
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit… — Meredith Willson
A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. — Eric Bentley
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow

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