After Quote by Mike Nichols

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have…

— Arthur Miller

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide…

— Glenda Jackson

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do…

— Edward Albee

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of…

— Wallace Shawn

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 one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say…

— Edward Albee

You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story that we're…

— Phillipa Soo

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my…

— Edward Albee

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington