Chekhov Quote by David Mamet

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about…

— Tom Stoppard

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a…

— Sam Mendes

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have…

— Arthur Miller

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me…

— Neil Simon

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin