You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, hav...
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playw...
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
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.
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
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.
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect pe...
I never wanted to be a playwright.
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
I am an internationally produced playwright.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
