#playwright

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#live #lives #occupied #playwright #stay

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. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#budding #detective #detective story #even #form

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#character #i #other #playwright #pray

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#believe #characters #costume #else #few

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #everybody #fairly #gets

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. ↗

— David Ives

#always #any #because #bunch #casting

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#drama school #had #historical #i #i think

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#goes #great #hollywood #horton #interior

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i