Any Quote by Jeffrey DeMunn

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to…

— Edward Albee

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my…

— Mandy Patinkin

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer

I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light…

— David Farr

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

— Andy Summers

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and…

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I read, I think, I play, I work. And all that thinkingand playing and reading comes into my art. I couldn't really sithere and…

— Harvey Keitel

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

— Jessica Walsh