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Israel Horovitz
American
Playwright
Born:
Mar 31
,
1939
Down
People
Plays
Work
Writing
You
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
Israel Horovitz
You
Yourself
Down
Out
Write
Mostly
Get
Certain
Play
Thing
Need
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
Israel Horovitz
Only
Mass
Town
Couple
Were
Up
Families
Grew
Jewish
My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
Israel Horovitz
Wonderful
Films
Says
London
New
Like
Because
York
New York
Agent
Really
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
Israel Horovitz
Work
People
Comedy
Will
Like
Opera
Soap
Soap Opera
Turn
Rooted
Use
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
Israel Horovitz
Some
Tourist
Town
Place
Working-Class
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
Israel Horovitz
Good
You
Age
Old
Old Age
Out
About
Someone
Good Shape
Shape
Because
Terrors
Friend
Frightened
Anything
Body
Your
Your Body
Street
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
Israel Horovitz
Me
Writing
Drive
Enjoy
Enough
Back
Unless
Something
Poem
Fact
Troubling
Never
Written
Absurdity
In Fact
Anything
Story
Film
Play
I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
Israel Horovitz
Other
Way
Write
Know
Because
How
Questions
Any
Any Other Way
Ask
Radical politics tend to be simple minded.
Israel Horovitz
Politics
Simple
Radical
Minded
Tend
I was not to the manor born.
Israel Horovitz
Born
My dream is to have a small company in France.
Israel Horovitz
France
Dream
Small
Company
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
Israel Horovitz
You
People
Cute
Focused
Kind
TV
TV And Film
Arcane
Something
Like
Look
Sport
Doing
Theater
Film
I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.
Israel Horovitz
Seen
Globe
Around
Languages
Productions
Dozens
What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.
Israel Horovitz
He
New
Center
Theater
Creates
Plays
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