Believe Quote by John Guare

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

— John Guare

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the…

— Himani Shivpuri

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down…

— Tracy Letts

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

— Edward Albee

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort…

— David Ives

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too;…

— Martin McDonagh

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

— Eric Bentley

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will…

— George Ogilvie

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept…

— Laurence Sterne