"With my plays, when the lights go down,……" — David Ives
"With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this."
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13 Quotes by David Ives
David Ives has 13 quotes on this site.
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Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but…
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Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature…
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I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people…
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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not…
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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
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All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
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I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to…
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I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
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I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
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Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is…
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form…
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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