Quotes About Art

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.

Plays have been made of my comics.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

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

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

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

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.

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.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.