Being Quote by Richard Greenberg

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 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

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me.…

— Richard Greenberg

I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the…

— Richard Greenberg

I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk their canary…

— Richard Greenberg

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

— Richard Greenberg

I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft…

— Richard Greenberg

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

— Richard Greenberg

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is,…

— Richard Greenberg

It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in…

— Richard Greenberg

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as…

— Richard Greenberg

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So,…

— Richard Greenberg