Playwright Quote by John Guare Download Open image “I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.” — John Guare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Playwright Thinking
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together,… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
