Deserve Quote by Joan Allen

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

— Michael O'Keefe

The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.

— Barbara Williams

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on…

— Constantin Stanislavski

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

— Judd Hirsch

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

— Edward Bond

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out…

— Tom Stoppard

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

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's…

— Edward Albee

I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the…

— Steven Knight

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.

— Harold Pinter

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

— Richard Greenberg

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let…

— John Guare