Quotes from Israel Horovitz

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

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.

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.

I don't direct the plays of others.

I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.

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.

My dream is to have a small company in France.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

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.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.