Quotes from Paula Vogel

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.

How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?

God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!

As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater.

That was the last day I lived in my body. I retreated above the neck, and lived inside the fire in my head ever since.

I am very old, very cynical of the world, and I know it all. In short, I am seventeen years old, parking off a dark lane with a married man on an early summer night.