Quotes About Inspiration

I'd love to do some new plays.

Plays have been made of my comics.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.

It's an incredible feeling when you look across the dressing room and see Andres, Leo, Luis and Sergio Busquets, and everyone else. They are players I used to watch on TV or play with on PlayStation, and now I am sharing the same dressing room. It's incredible for me.

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.

Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.

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.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

Be ambitious. The great actor, director and playwright Ann Jellicoe commissioned writers like Howard Barker and David Edgar, and put on magnificent, large-scale plays in Dorset that involved the whole community.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.