"I mean there’s a certain finality about a……" — Tracy Letts
"I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There’s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can’t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. I’ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre."
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14 Quotes by Tracy Letts
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Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
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All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without…
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The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
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After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought…
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I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
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My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
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We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
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Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
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Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you…
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In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer…
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When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the…
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I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends…
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