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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.
Robert Anderson
Man
Heart
Passion
Will
Whatever
Conviction
Playwright
Write
Mission
Look
Him
Concerns
Course
His
Measure
Moment
Play
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Best
Me
Playwright
Writer
Becoming
Happened
Things
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
Sam Shepard
Me
People
Playwright
Prose
Feel
Like
Always
How
Years
Years And Years
Going
Keep
Thing
Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.
Sarah Jones
Work
Nature
You
Political
Poet
Down
Living
Every
Playwright
Has-Been
Kind
About
Something
Shakespeare
Songwriter
Know
Look
Most
Talking
Context
Been
Tragedies
Reflected
Greek
Artist
Often
Moved
Whether
Mean
Create
Moment
Sat
Even
Ever
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.
Skylar Astin
You
King
Playwright
Everything
Background
Come
Course
Am
Huge
Optimal
Huge Fan
Where
Fan
Theater
Scripted
Serve
To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'
Stephen Karam
Work
Me
You
Seriously
Made
Think
Playwright
Playwriting
See
Some
Could
Take
Clear
Like
Track
Sort
Profession
Professional
Actor
Actually
Thing
Career
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.
Steve Erickson
Best
Year
Playwright
Though
Sundance
Mad
Fingers
Directed
Through
Tour
Written
Talk
Nominee
Terrific
Were
End
Donald
Max
James
Film
Among
Watched
Pulitzer
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.
Suzan-Lori Parks
You
Difficult
Playwright
Further
Kind
Magic
More
Road
Know
Knows
Lord
Get
Gets
Any
Middle
Being
Race
Working
Mojo
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
You
Playwright
Books
Plot
Characters
Structured
Invested
Developing
Demands
Like
Sort
Audience
Same
Any
Story
Creating
Your
Helps
Keeping
Started
Basically
Hone
Plays
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Terence Rattigan
Lose
Few
Own
Playwright
Dares
Must
Minute
Never
Readers
Audience
His
May
Pages
Novelist
There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.
Terry Teachout
Playwright
Extremely
Kinds
Sharp
Named
Comedies
Wrote
Still
Provocative
Sam
Quite
Social
Who
Actually
Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.
Terry Teachout
World
Playwright
Too
Understand
Audiences
His
Dumb
English-Speaking
Tom
Grown
Thinks
British
Plays
A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.
Terry Teachout
Situation
Playwright
Characters
He
Concentrate
Forced
Himself
Limited
Limits
Handful
Essentials
Who
Chosen
Portray
In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all.
Theresa Rebeck
Health
Theatre
Playwright
Health Insurance
Makes
Insurance
Than
America
Any
Decent
Average
Less
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
Timothy West
You
Playwright
Tell
Characters
Tries
About
More
Know
Than
Conventional
Themselves
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.
Tom Hardy
Great
You
Director
Hate
Playwright
Great Director
Someone
David
Writer
He
Like
Know
Him
Controversy
Screenplay
Mean
Really
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.
Tracie Thoms
Work
Culture
School
Single
Playwright
Other
Ours
Wilson
Shakespeare
Never
Forced
Learn
Learned
Always
August
Juilliard
Did
African-American
Acting
Acting School
Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
William Goldman
Time
Three
Playwright
Broadway
Had
Failed
Am
Yes
Shows
By The Time
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
Tom Stoppard
You
Own
Playwright
Waterfront
Those
Able
About
Area
Without
Cover
Lot
Any
Being
Hold
Expert
Against
Your
Illusions
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
Tom Stoppard
Writing
Playwright
Involved
Gets
Movies
Who
Play
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