Any Quote by Simon McBurney

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may…

— Eugene Ionesco

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it…

— T. S. Eliot

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

Details - that's what it comes down to, so you're always learning more about a play or a concept.

— Matt Nagy

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

— Jean Piaget

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

— Jean Piaget

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

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

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

— Jill Vialet