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“I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.” quote by George C. Wolfe — Download Open image

“I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.”

George C. Wolfe

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I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying…

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The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

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You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.

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A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense…

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There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of…

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Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

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There's no place more theatrical than history.

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If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room.

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When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving…

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Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

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Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

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I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

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