Critical Quote by Tony Kushner

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

— Tony Kushner

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle…

— Tony Kushner

“Fabulous. If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is. When you attempt to delineate it, you move away from it.…

— Tony Kushner

People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and…

— Tony Kushner

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody…

— Tony Kushner

“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of…

— Tony Kushner

“MATAMORE: I never fight with my love face on, I worry that it might get scratched.”

— Tony Kushner

“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think…

— Tony Kushner

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen -…

— Tony Kushner

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

— Tony Kushner

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate…

— Tony Kushner

“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more…

— Tony Kushner